The Staff Software Engineer will design, build, and maintain Square's catalog system, ensuring reliability and scalability while mentoring other engineers.
Since we opened our doors in 2009, the world of commerce has evolved immensely, and so has Square. After enabling anyone to take payments and never miss a sale, we saw sellers stymied by disparate, outmoded products and tools that wouldn't work together.
So we expanded into software and started building integrated, omnichannel solutions - to help sellers sell online, manage inventory, offer buy now, pay later functionality, book appointments, engage loyal buyers, and hire and pay staff. Across it all, we've embedded financial services tools at the point of sale, so merchants can access a business loan and manage their cash flow in one place. Afterpay furthers our goal to provide omnichannel tools that unlock meaningful value and growth, enabling sellers to capture the next generation shopper, increase order sizes, and compete at a larger scale.
Today, we are a partner to sellers of all sizes - large, enterprise-scale businesses with complex operations, sellers just starting, as well as merchants who began selling with Square and have grown larger over time. As our sellers grow, so do our solutions. There is a massive opportunity in front of us. We're building a significant, meaningful, and lasting business, and we are helping sellers worldwide do the same.
The Role
The Catalog Foundations team owns the core services that allow Square sellers to seamlessly and reliably manage their catalogs. We ensure the platform is reliable, performant and scalable, and we empower internal teams and sellers with superior service and extensibility. We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to collaborate closely with the other back-end engineers to maintain reliability and performance of our service. We are seeking engineers who will contribute to setting our technical direction and champion best practices. Engineers on our team are expected to make thoughtful, outcome-based and data-driven investments in foundational improvements to accelerate dependent teams.
You Will
You Have
Even Better:
Technologies We Use and Teach
At Block, our purpose is to empower - within and outside of our walls. In order to build the best tools for the businesses and customers we support all over the world, we have to start at home with a workforce as diverse and empowered as our sellers. To this end, we take great care to evaluate all employees and job applicants equally, based on merit, competence, and qualifications. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, social or health conditions, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Applicants in need of special assistance or accommodation during the interview process or in accessing our website may contact us by sending an email to assistance(at)squareup.com.
Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.
To find a location's zone designation, please refer to this resource . If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information.
Zone A:
$263,600 - $395,400 USD
Zone B:
$263,600 - $395,400 USD
Zone C:
$263,600 - $395,400 USD
Zone D:
$263,600 - $395,400 USD
Every benefit we offer is designed with one goal: empowering you to do the best work of your career while building the life you want. Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offering. Check out our other benefits at Block.
Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy. Each of our brands unlocks different aspects of the economy for more people. Square makes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers. Cash App is the easy way to spend, send, and store money. Afterpay is transforming the way customers manage their spending over time. TIDAL is a music platform that empowers artists to thrive as entrepreneurs. Bitkey is a simple self-custody wallet built for bitcoin. Proto is a suite of bitcoin mining products and services. Together, we're helping build a financial system that is open to everyone.
So we expanded into software and started building integrated, omnichannel solutions - to help sellers sell online, manage inventory, offer buy now, pay later functionality, book appointments, engage loyal buyers, and hire and pay staff. Across it all, we've embedded financial services tools at the point of sale, so merchants can access a business loan and manage their cash flow in one place. Afterpay furthers our goal to provide omnichannel tools that unlock meaningful value and growth, enabling sellers to capture the next generation shopper, increase order sizes, and compete at a larger scale.
Today, we are a partner to sellers of all sizes - large, enterprise-scale businesses with complex operations, sellers just starting, as well as merchants who began selling with Square and have grown larger over time. As our sellers grow, so do our solutions. There is a massive opportunity in front of us. We're building a significant, meaningful, and lasting business, and we are helping sellers worldwide do the same.
The Role
The Catalog Foundations team owns the core services that allow Square sellers to seamlessly and reliably manage their catalogs. We ensure the platform is reliable, performant and scalable, and we empower internal teams and sellers with superior service and extensibility. We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to collaborate closely with the other back-end engineers to maintain reliability and performance of our service. We are seeking engineers who will contribute to setting our technical direction and champion best practices. Engineers on our team are expected to make thoughtful, outcome-based and data-driven investments in foundational improvements to accelerate dependent teams.
You Will
- Help design, build, and maintain Square's catalog system
- Collaborate cross-team on projects
- Deliver APIs that make it easy for developers to interact with catalog data
- Identify risks and devise solutions to performance and scalability challenges as our catalog and seller data continues to evolve and grow
- Build for the future by clearly communicating the cost-benefit of a given solution and advocating for the best path forward
- Hold your teammates and yourself to a high standard of engineering that is foundational to products that have a huge impact on sellers day to day operations.
- Mentor other engineers, helping them develop both technical and soft skills to navigate alignment challenges, manage complexity, and drive impact across teams
You Have
- 12+ years of software development experience
- Strong familiarity with Go
- An advanced degree in computer science or equivalent experience
- Experience in designing and productionizing large-scale distributed systems
- Willingness to learn, grow, and give and receive feedback
- Ability to find and solve problems with a high degree of ambiguity
- Excellent skills with data modeling and data management
- Experience with complete development cycle from product definition to delivery
Even Better:
- Experience building a unified catalog experience within a marketplace-based business
- Experience supporting internal and external developers at large and complex organizations
Technologies We Use and Teach
- Golang
- MySQL, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, Redis
- Protocol Buffers, gRPC, Kafka, Terraform, Kubernetes, Temporal IO, Envoy
- AWS and other cloud platform
At Block, our purpose is to empower - within and outside of our walls. In order to build the best tools for the businesses and customers we support all over the world, we have to start at home with a workforce as diverse and empowered as our sellers. To this end, we take great care to evaluate all employees and job applicants equally, based on merit, competence, and qualifications. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, social or health conditions, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Applicants in need of special assistance or accommodation during the interview process or in accessing our website may contact us by sending an email to assistance(at)squareup.com.
Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.
To find a location's zone designation, please refer to this resource . If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information.
Zone A:
$263,600 - $395,400 USD
Zone B:
$263,600 - $395,400 USD
Zone C:
$263,600 - $395,400 USD
Zone D:
$263,600 - $395,400 USD
Every benefit we offer is designed with one goal: empowering you to do the best work of your career while building the life you want. Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offering. Check out our other benefits at Block.
Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy. Each of our brands unlocks different aspects of the economy for more people. Square makes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers. Cash App is the easy way to spend, send, and store money. Afterpay is transforming the way customers manage their spending over time. TIDAL is a music platform that empowers artists to thrive as entrepreneurs. Bitkey is a simple self-custody wallet built for bitcoin. Proto is a suite of bitcoin mining products and services. Together, we're helping build a financial system that is open to everyone.
Top Skills
AWS
DynamoDB
Envoy
Go
Grpc
Kafka
Kubernetes
MySQL
Opensearch
Protocol Buffers
Redis
Temporal Io
Terraform
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