Senior Software Engineer, Android Foundation

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.

To solve this problem, we expanded into software and built integrated solutions to help sellers sell online, manage inventory, 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

As a Software Engineer on Android Foundation, you would join a mobile team responsible for providing architectural guidance, frameworks, and primitives used as the building blocks for all product development at Square. Engineering teams across Square rely upon these offerings to rapidly develop and ship new features at scale.

You will: 

• Identify, scope, and lead complex, mobile projects with wide impact across the company
• Build or integrate architectural frameworks and tools enabling product developers to rapidly develop and ship new features in mobile applications
• Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design
• Design highly available, and resilient systems which can operate no matter the network or device conditions.
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders across the company including product, design, legal, support, and other engineering teams
• Provide mentorship and design reviews for engineering teams across Square working with our frameworks
• Mentor other engineers and help cultivate a growing team
• Contribute to the direction of the team and selection of projects on our roadmap.

Qualifications

• 8 or more years of professional software development experience, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or an equivalent degree)
• Ability to breakdown complex projects into components or milestones that can easily be picked up by other engineers
• Demonstrated collaboration with co-workers on cross-functional teams and in other locations
• Desire to understand developer pain points, jobs-to-be-done, and strong sense of ownership
• Desire to facilitate adoption through high-quality documentation, tutorials, and samples.
• Familiarity with any of the following programming languages: Java, Kotlin
• Familiarity building and shipping mobile apps running on custom Android operating systems and hardware 

Technologies we use and teach:

• Kotlin, Java for mobile development; Gradle for build tooling.
• Compose, Workflow, Dagger, Anvil, Coroutines, RxJava, Retrofit, and OkHttp mobile libraries.
• gRPC, Protocol Buffers, JSON for network transport
• SQLDelight, SQLite, for data persistence

 

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 $185,900
Zone B: USD $158,900 - USD $176,600
Zone C: USD $150,600 - USD $167,300
Zone D: USD $142,200 - USD $158,000

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. 

Benefits include the following:

• Healthcare coverage
• 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
• Learning and Development resources
• Paid Life insurance, AD&D. and disability benefits 
• Perks such as WFH reimb