Job Description

Square Hardware
The Square Hardware team builds emotion-evoking, commerce-enabling products that deliver Square’s breadth of software products into the hands of our sellers. We have a portfolio of products, from the simple and elegant little white reader to the powerful, integrated products like Square Register and Square Terminal. We design, engineer, develop, manufacture, and distribute products that enable in-person commerce, empower businesses of all sizes, and are synonymous with our brand. See what we offer today and imagine what you can help us build in the future.

The role
Devices Software Engineering team develops and delivers the underlying software that powers our hardware products. As the Head of Devices Software Engineering for Square Hardware, you will lead a team of ~100 engineers that build and maintain our Android-based operating system, firmware, 1st party software release system (QA & release management), 1st party eCommerce shop, and our developer experience team. You will be responsible for leading the development of the software assets for new consumer electronic devices and the sustaining engineering work for our existing portfolio of products (i.e., Readers, Stand, Terminal, or Register), including regular software releases. You will work closely with our product, customer-facing app developer, and hardware engineering teams (EE, Systems, and PD).

You will: 

• Lead a team of ~100 software engineers and engineering managers
• Work with your partner teams to effectively build new products and sustain our existing products
• Build high-quality, effective and enjoyable products
• Build a team culture of high performance, pride, and accountability

Qualifications

You Have:

• 10+ years of experience leading world-class software engineering teams
• Experience building firmware and operating system-level software for consumer electronic devices
• Experience in developing software platforms, QA, release management, and developer experience
• Familiarity with Android, Qualcomm SOCs, Bluetooth, Wifi, and cellular
• Understanding of how to work with manufacturing partners in both CM and JDM models 
• A passion for building great products and empowering SMB businesses
• Experience building teams with a performance culture
• An ability to communicate with executives effectively and navigate highly cross-functional work