Job Description

As a software engineer on the Inventory Foundations team, you will be launching and maintaining critical features that help all Square sellers manage their inventory and make informed decisions for their businesses: our team’s mission is to create absolute trust in inventory for sellers and build great experiences for the other Square teams to leverage in their vertical-specific solutions.  We work closely with product, design and marketing to ensure we’re always taking a holistic approach to how best serve our merchants. 

In addition to seller-facing features, your team is responsible for the Inventory API, used by thousands of developers building key integrations.  You will utilize modern cloud-based database technologies to improve performance and scale to handle the future needs of our merchants and Square.

We work closely with product, design and marketing to ensure we’re always taking a holistic approach to how best serve our merchants. As a growing team we like to move quickly, and expect engineers to have a large impact on the road-map, product and technology.

You will:

• Build a highly scalable, reliable, and performant platform that can scale to handle the needs of our merchants
• Lead architectural and design discussions, ensuring our platform is performant, fault tolerant, and maintainable
• Provide input to aid in the technical decisions and direction for the team and mentor other engineers
• Design fault tolerant systems so the team can be brave, move fast, and break things, without ever showing a negative impact to customers.
• Be given opportunities to stretch yourself by learning new technologies and working with engineers and other partners

Qualifications

You have:

• 6+ years of industry experience, preferably with a B.S. or equivalent.
• Experience building and maintaining highly scalable and performant distributed systems
• Technical initiative and a desire to make those around you better
• Experience with incident response, including disaster recovery
• Eagerness to share your own ideas, and openness to those of others.
• Experience implementing Data Storage services at scale with one or more of the following databases: MySQL, TiDB, DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Elasticsearch
• A knack for creating readable, well-crafted, maintainable code.

Technologies we use and teach:

• Golang
• Elasticsearch
• Protocol Buffers, gRPC
• MySQL