Senior Android Engineer, Restaurants

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

The Restaurants team at Square is reimagining the hospitality industry to empower today's restaurants with simple, elegant software and efficient workflows.  We admire the people working in the highly-competitive food and drink business and we want to help them succeed.

Restaurants today operate in an increasingly dynamic landscape, and we're building a modern product ecosystem to support this.  Our products leverage innovative technology to unlock new workflows, revenue streams, and means of communication.  In everything we build, we focus on efficiency, automation, and reliability: themes of paramount importance in a fast-paced environment where great hospitality is key.

As an Android engineer on the Restaurants team, you’ll work closely with other engineers as well as your designer and product manager to develop beautiful software on our own custom hardware.  You’ll also be joining Square’s vibrant global community of Android engineers, with a robust open source presence and culture of learning and teaching.

Qualifications

You will:

• Design and build robust, scalable client software 

• Lead complex cross-functional initiatives, often across team boundaries

• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers

• Mentor and learn from other engineers

• Participate in the full lifecycle of product development, from early definition through release and beyond

• Bring industry-advancing technology to restaurant owners internationally!

What you bring to the team and to Square:

• 4-6 years of experience in Software development

• Motivation to build beautiful, intuitive products for the food and drink hospitality industry

• Ability to mentor other engineers and help teams level up

• Empathy for your customers and colleagues

• Eagerness to share your own ideas, and openness to those of others

• Experience shipping and maintaining Android apps

Technologies we use:

• Kotlin for development, leveraging Square’s modern open source library, Workflow

• Espresso and Snapshot for testing

• Protocol buffers for network transport

• Gradle for our build environment

• Also exposure to LeakCanary, RXJava, Dagger, Mortar, and Okhttp among others

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 of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information. 

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 Purc