Staff Backend Software Engineer, Block
Square Credit Card
$168.3-297k
+ Employee Stock Purchase Program. Salary varies depending on location
Financial services ecosystem
Job no longer available
Financial services ecosystem
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$168.3-297k
+ Employee Stock Purchase Program. Salary varies depending on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create better tools to help everyone access the economy.
Role
Who you are
- BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience leading complex and large-scale features that require collaboration across engineering team boundaries
- Experience serving as a technical lead, mentoring other engineers
- Proficiency in at least one server-side language and an enthusiasm to learn others
- Strong ownership and execution skills with a focus on delivering remarkable solutions to our sellers
- Experience working in a customer-focused environment
- Passion for engineering excellence by making high quality, impactful technical contributions
- Excellent communication skills and a demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with partners across Product, Design, Data Science, Operations among other functions
What the job involves
- The Square Credit Card team and its partner frontend engineering team together provide the product experience that fuels a seamless end to end card experience for Square sellers
- As a staff software engineer on the Square Credit Card Team, you will help us expand access to Square Credit Card for sellers and design features to differentiate our product from other credit cards
- You will be responsible for designing, building and managing sophisticated financial systems and highly available services while working with your team peers, cross-functional partners, and adjacent engineering teams
- Advocate for major initiatives to expand access to Credit Card for our sellers
- Work with Engineering, Product, and other partners to build software that is clean and well-tested by leveraging cloud technologies
- Oversee the entirety of your features, including component design, implementation, testing, roll-out and maintenance
- Partner with web, iOS, android and platform engineers to ship features
- Work with designers, product managers, data scientists, and other developers to understand our problem space and create elegant solutions
- Provide mentorship to other engineers to help grow their career through 1-on-1 mentorship, engineering design reviews, and code reviews to improve the skills of the team
- Become an expert in multiple technical areas of the team, a representative and champion for the team, and a source of insights and wisdom
- Participate in ongoing training to maintain current knowledge of BSA/AML and perform BSA/AML duties as required by job function
- If you love collaboratively delivering elegant software that improves the lives of millions of business owners, we want to work with you
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Block is a financial services technology company comprising of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD. Its biggest brand, Square, offers hardware and software for small to medium-sized businesses enabling them to manage the entire payment lifecycle. It functions similarly to Shopify and Stripe, but has paired online payment processing with physical devices such as registers, payment terminals, and mobile card readers.
The business was originally founded as Square in 2009 by Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame. Already well-established with SMEs all over the globe, Square has significantly benefited from the increased demand for mobile payment systems. Its order management feature remains a go-to tool for small businesses that otherwise didn't have the proper infrastructure in place when demand for home delivery surged.
Square rebranded as Block in December 2021, with the Square brand name remaining in place for their seller business. The company has since come under fire for its security practices, facing lawsuits in relation to a major breach of CashApp user data, and in 2024 announced plans to reduce its workforce in order to cut costs. Despite these setbacks, there is every chance the business will move past this, though it may take some time to rebuild trust in its product.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Healthcare coverage (Medical, Vision and Dental insurance)
- Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account
- 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 (including 12 paid holidays)
- Paid sick leave (1 hour per 26 hours worked (max 80 hours per calendar year to the extent legally permissible) for non-exempt employees and covered by our Flexible Time Off policy for exempt employees)
- Learning and Development resources
- Paid Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Founders
Jack Dorsey
(CEO)Having studied at and dropped out of New York University, Jack founded Twitter in March 2006, where he has served as CEO since. He co-founded Square with Jim in February 2009, and has remained its CEO ever since.
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