Senior Software Engineer, Orders Data Platform

Company Description

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 through Afterpay, 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.

Job Description

We are the Orders Data Platform team, a team whose mission is to help merchants of all sizes gain insights from their sales data through a variety of interfaces. We sit at the center of critical domains and data flows, and we’re building a multi-layered platform to achieve our goals with Square-wide impact. We’re looking for a senior engineer who can help us build new platform features to dramatically improve user-facing search and reporting experiences at Square.

We provide a unified view of Orders/Orders-adjacent data at Square, and power a variety of interfaces for our teams and third-party developers to access that data. You’ll work with teams to understand requirements, and ensure the platform we’re building works across several distinct use cases.

To power that view of Orders, we’re also building a general-purpose Elasticsearch- and GraphQL-based search and reporting platform that can operate at Square scale. This general-purpose platform already powers search and reporting for a variety of teams at Square in production, and we’re continuing to evolve it for our collective use cases. We build in the open, and look forward to open-sourcing this platform in 2024 for even wider impact.

You will:

• Work with Product and partners across Square to identify platform requirements, and work within the engineering team to develop the corresponding features.

• Provide high-quality hands-on contributions across multiple code bases.

• Identify technical and architectural end states for the project, and influence/evolve the code case in those directions.

• Play a key role in choosing technical investments for the team.

Qualifications

You Have:

• 5+ years of software development experience

• Familiarity with architecting/implementing Java-/Kotlin-based backend services

• Strong product intuition and interest, with platform-building experience

• Strategic leadership experience on medium/large-scale software projects

• Interest and experience in mentoring other engineers

Even better:

• Experience with real-time data streaming platforms such as Kafka and Kinesis.

• Experience and familiarity with Kotlin, GraphQL, Elasticsearch, and AWS technologies

• Proficiency in large-scale Ruby projects, or a history and interest in quickly learning new technologies and stacks.

• History of contributions to open-source projects

• Familiarity with the payments-processing domain

   

Technologies we use within Orders Data Platform:

• Java, Kotlin, Ruby

• GraphQL

• Elasticsearch, DynamoDb

• Terraform, AWS Lambda, SQS, Cloudwatch

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 $167,300 - USD $204,500
Zone B: USD $158,900 - USD $194,300
Zone C: USD $150,600 - USD $184,000
Zone D: USD $142,200 - USD $173,800

To find a location’s zone designation, please refer to this resource. If a location o