Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - Invoices

Job Description

Square Invoices is the easiest way for merchants to close sales and collect payments remotely. Our customers rely on our products because they are well-designed, easy to use, and integrated with their business. We are a full-stack product-oriented team, spanning across engineering, design, product, data science, and marketing. You’ll contribute to the roadmap and strategy decisions and will play a critical role in helping the team accomplish our industry-leading growth goals.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with engineers, designers, and product managers to design, build, and iterate on world-class product experiences, defining product scope and design.
• Be responsible for the entirety of your features; including API design, implementation, automated testing, and rollout.
• Hold yourself, and your teammates accountable to the standards of engineering and ethics that enable Square to safely move billions of dollars in payments and allow our customers to trust us with their sensitive data.
• Help empower a team of engineers by mentoring individuals, cultivating pragmatic engineering decision-making, and leveraging your technical expertise to constantly raise the quality of design decisions and implementation by holding the team to a high standard.
• Partner with Web, iOS, Android, and Server engineers to ship features.
• Respond to customer feedback to improve our products.
• Build high availability and resilient systems which can accept and report payments no matter the network or device conditions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional experience in software engineering.
• Strong ownership and execution skills, with a pragmatic focus on ROI, to deliver remarkable solutions to our merchants.
• The ability to adapt to the different stages of product development. This can mean building intentionally scrappy code to iterate quickly, or building a sustainable system that will support our product for years to come.
• Proficiency in at least one server-side language and an enthusiasm to learn others. Our engineers have all kinds of backgrounds and are encouraged to move freely across our technology stack.
• Demonstrated ability to create readable, pragmatic code.
• The ability to provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers of varying experience levels.
• Strong communication skills and a demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with other functions, such as designers, product managers, data scientists, marketing, and business development to deliver a great product.
• An appreciation for the connection between the software you build and the experience it delivers to customers.

Technologies We Use and Teach

• Languages: Ruby, Java, Kotlin
• Frameworks: Rails, RSpec, Sidekiq, gRPC, Guice
• Infrastructure: MySQL/Aurora, Redis/Elasticache, Elasticsearch, Kafka

Additional Information

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.

• Zone A: USD $163,600 - USD $245,400
• Zone B: USD $155,400 - USD $233,200
• Zone C: USD $147,300 - USD $220,900
• Zone D: USD $139,000 - USD $208,600

Full-time employee benefits include the following:

• Healthcare coverage (Medical, Vision and Dental insurance)
• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account
• Retirement Plans including company match
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance
• Paid parental and caregiving leave
• Paid time off (including 12 paid holidays)
• Paid sick leave
• Learning and Development resources
• Paid Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits

These benefits are further detailed in Block's policies. This role is also eligible to participate in Block's equity plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies, and may be eligible for a sign-on bonus. Sales roles may be eligible to participate in a commission plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies. Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible.