Staff Software Engineer, Reporting 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 Reporting Platform team, a team whose mission is to help merchants of all sizes gain insights from their core sales data through the interface of their choosing. 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 staff software engineer who can lead development for new reporting and platform functionality to significantly level-up the user-facing reporting experience at Square.

As the core transactional record at Square, Orders form the backbone of data sellers use to analyze, understand, and improve their business performance. Sellers rely on our platforms and experiences to understand both up-to-the minute analysis of the business, as well as to analyze longer-term trends and insights - being able to bridge the worlds between real-time transactional systems and batch/analytical systems is a strong plus for the position.

As a Staff Engineer, you will lead the design and implementation of new platform features, mentor and lead engineers across the team, and engage with partner teams across the company in service of our team and organizational objectives.

You will:

• Work with Product and stakeholders across Square to identify platform requirements, and work within the engineering team to plan and implement 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 base in those directions.

• Drive impact through technical leadership and mentorship across the team.

Qualifications

You have:

• 7+ years of software development experience

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

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

• Tactical and strategic leadership experience on medium/large-scale software projects

• Strong written communication skills for internal and external stakeholders

• Interest and experience in mentoring other engineers

Even better:

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

• Experience with real-time streaming into OLAP platforms such as Databricks and/or Snowflake.

• Proficiency in large-scale Ruby and/or open-source projects

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

• Familiarity with the payments-processing domain

Technologies we use within Orders Reporting Platform:

• Java, Kotlin, Ruby

• GraphQL

• Elasticsearch, DynamoDb

• Kafka, Snowflake

• 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 $198,000 - USD $297,000
Zone B: USD $188,100 - USD $282,100
Zone C: USD $178,200 - USD $267,400
Zone D: USD $168,300 - USD $252,500

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