Software Engineer

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

Payment Onboarding Team enables sellers to easily join Square's financial ecosystem and start taking payments, and they rely on our software to guide them through verifying their identity and business information. We also play a critical part in ensuring more people can use Square's services by expanding our onboarding of sellers in new countries, business types, and payment methods. We are looking for a Senior backend engineer to help build scalable solutions that helps sellers verify their identity and business to be able to take payments.

You will:

• Build high volume, highly available services that support excellent product experiences and are crucial to the Square onboarding process around the world.
• Partner with other engineers across Square and Trusted Identity, product managers, designers and data scientists to deliver quality features for our sellers.
• Be accountable for the feature delivery timeline with minimal to no support.
• Participate in system design, PR reviews and continuous improvements on the technical debts.
• Be curious about the payment onboarding space, attention to detail in customer use cases.

Qualifications

You have:

• BS Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience; candidates in this role typically have 3+ years of experience.
• Programming depth with one or more of Ruby, Java, or Go.
• Ability to participate and define system architecture.
• Great communication skills and enthusiasm for working cross-functionally.
• Natural curiosity and desire to build products that merchants depend on.
• A knack for solving hard and engaging engineering problems.
• A sense of customer empathy and desire to influence product direction.

Technologies we use and teach:

• Ruby, Rails, Java, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Ember.
• MySQL, NoSQL, Redis, Kafka.
• AWS, GCP.

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.

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 and Development resources

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.

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.