Staff Frontend Software Engineer - Remote Device Management

Job Description

We are seeking a product-focused Staff Frontend Engineer with over 10 years of experience to join our Square Platform Team. Our team plays a crucial role in enabling sellers to manage core lifecycle aspects of their business within Square’s ecosystem. Specific to this role, we maintain the web products that manage a seller's Square and third-party devices, their connection to the Square ecosystem, and employee access management. This public-facing team operates in a fast-paced, highly cross-functional environment and is critical to Square’s success and revenue. This makes it a high-impact and high-visibility role.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of multiple products and solutions that are used by sellers at a high scale, ensuring robust and scalable architectures.
• Deliver cross-functional projects on tight deadlines, managing priorities effectively to meet business needs.
• Lead by example and help foster a culture of positivity, psychological safety, and inclusivity within the team.
• Be exposed to and impact real business challenges, applying your deep experience to shape technical direction and manage tech debt effectively.
• Identify and explore ways to improve application architecture and testing, leveraging your experience with multiple different styles of architectures.
• Continually seek to optimize and improve the seller experience, driving high engineering standards and best practices.
• Iterate rapidly on features, services, and processes, adapting to changing business requirements and feedback.
• Build frontend interfaces that support remarkable product experiences, which are crucial to the Square onboarding process around the world.
• Hold yourself, and your teammates, accountable to the highest standards of engineering, enabling Square to safely move billions of dollars in payments and allowing our customers to trust us with their sensitive data.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in frontend engineering, with a strong track record of delivering high-quality software solutions.
• Extensive experience with multiple architectural styles and high-scale systems, demonstrating an ability to navigate and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Proven ability to deliver cross-functional projects on tight deadlines, balancing technical excellence with business needs.
• Strong leadership skills, fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
• Experience in managing tech debt, shaping technical direction, and driving continuous improvement.
• Proficient in modern frontend technologies and frameworks, with a deep understanding of best practices in software development.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with a keen ability to identify and implement solutions to real business challenges.
• Commitment to high engineering standards, ensuring robust, secure, and scalable systems that maintain the trust of our customers.

Technologies We Use

• JavaScript, TypeScript, Java
• React, Ember, Svelte, Storybook
• MySQL, NoSQL, Redis, Kafka
• AWS, GCP
• Protocol Buffers, Bazel, Terraform, Kubernetes, Envoy

Additional Information

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. Square 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, 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.

Perks

• 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