Staff iOS Engineer, Block
UI Systems
$239.6-359.4k
+ Stock Options
Financial services ecosystem
Job no longer available
Financial services ecosystem
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$239.6-359.4k
+ Stock Options
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create better tools to help everyone access the economy.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years iOS development experience, deep UIKit experience is a must
- Some SwiftUI experience or knowledge is expected
- Experience with, understanding of, and passion for UI design principles
- Experience building design systems or UI frameworks at medium to large scale
- Experience building relationships across design and engineering
- Experience leading through influence across engineers
- Experience as a technical lead or manager for a small to medium sized team
- Note: We are a process-light team – you must be independent, have a strong bias towards action, and be a self-starter. We use processes to help us, not to constrain us
What the job involves
- As an engineer on the UI Systems team, you’ll be expected to partner closely with our design team to inform and deliver components and tools that help Square’s product engineers work faster, while ensuring a quality experience for Square’s sellers
- You’ll also function as a translator of sorts – identifying needs and missing pieces and bringing them to UI Systems to push the entire design system forward
- We also work closely with peer engineering teams like Mobile Foundation and Mobile Performance & Reliability, ensuring a reliable, performant and observable toolkit across all layers of the stack
- As the staff engineer and the team technical lead for UI Systems iOS, you’ll work closely with UI Systems leads, and leads across Square to set technical direction, set team priorities, and overall evangelize the work of UI Systems
- Alongside your manager, you’ll also be responsible for career coaching and technical mentorship of your UI Systems iOS peers
- Finally, you will also be expected to build and maintain relationships with other senior mobile engineers, both within our team, and across all of our customer and peer teams to stay ahead of potential issues and understand upcoming needs
- A key part of UI Systems’ job is to understand the current state of mobile development at Square, empathizing with the pain points of our customer teams, and working across platform teams to solve these issues – our team works with others to “get to yes” – we want to be an enabler, not a blocker
- Build the core UI frameworks and design tooling needed to deploy, maintain, and test our design system at scale (we have 1300+ screens across our products)
- Work closely with designers on UI systems, and across Square, to build a scalable design system for our mobile apps. This includes everything from simple UI elements like buttons up to custom navigation stacks and hierarchies and whatever is needed between
- Work with all engineers on UI systems across Android, iOS, and web to ensure we’re building in a consistent and cohesive way on all three platforms. We’re aiming for consistency in APIs across platforms when possible
- Embed with Square’s product teams to evangelize and adopt our design system, core frameworks, and design tools
- Provide courteous, timely support to product engineers building with the design system, answering their questions and building missing pieces to unblock and support their needs
Application process
- Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
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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