Senior Software Engineer (Frontend), Onboarding

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 looking for a product-focused frontend senior software engineer to join our Onboarding Team. Our work enables sellers to onboard & adopt Square’s ecosystem, and manage various other life cycles. Onboarding in particular is the first step in a seller's journey in the Square ecosystem. This public facing team is highly cross functional & critical to the success of Square, and are a direct contributor to the Square’s revenue. Thus making it a high impact & high visibility team.

You will:

• Be exposed to and impact real business challenges

• Identify and explore ways to improve application architecture, testing, and build pipeline

• Continually seek to optimize and improve the seller experience

• Iterate rapidly on features, services, and processes

• 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 that enables Square to safely move billions of dollars in payments and allow our customers to trust us with their sensitive data

Qualifications

• BS Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience; candidates in this role typically have 8+ years of industry experience

• Programming depth with JavaScript

• Great communication skills and an ability to work cross-functionally

• An openness to collaboration and willingness to grow as an engineer

• A sense of customer empathy and desire to influence the product direction

• Understanding and curiosity in creating well thought out, scalable, low-latency, global systems

Technologies we use and teach:

• JavaScript, Typescript, Java

• React,  Ember, 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. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page. 

Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

Perks

We want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:

• Healthcare coverage

• Retirement Plans

• Employee Stock Purchase Program

• Wellness perks

• Paid parental leave

• Paid time off

• Learning an