Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Square’s Ecommerce Editor Team owns the Online Store website editor, which allows thousands of sellers to quickly and easily create their own online store from scratch. We’re seeking a full stack engineer who is passionate about working on both our large scale front-end editor application, and the back-end system supporting it. You will help build features to create a world-class e-commerce experience for both our sellers and their customers.  

You will:

• Lead initiatives to improve our website builder and online store platform

• Drive the architecture of our frontend systems to enable quick and stable feature development

• Build elegant user-facing web experiences that combine intuitive interfaces with smooth performance at scale

• Own the entirety of your features, write testable and well-documented frontend and backend code

• Build systems that manage sensitive customer data while holding Square to the highest standards for security and compliance

• Work with an amazing group of engineers while leveraging your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar

Qualifications

You have:

• BA/BS degree in computer science or equivalent,

• 5+ years of practical experience building frontend applications (we use VueJS),

• 5+ years of practical full stack development work experience (ideally using PHP, and even Laravel),

• Experience building large web applications in a distributed environment and can make pragmatic engineering decisions,

• Interest in working full-stack, from optimizing database transactions, to building distributed systems, and frontend web applications,

• And a track record of pursuing self-directed side projects, research, or open source projects.

Web Technologies we use:

• Javascript ES6, VueJS, Pinia, Webpack

• PHP with Laravel

• MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, Memcached, RabbitMQ