Job Description

As a software engineer on the Payments team, you will develop the Payments Platform services and infrastructure that securely move money for Square. You will be involved in the technical details of building available and reliable services, while also working with product teams to allow Square to build new capabilities for our merchants and buyers all over the world.

You will:

• Work with engineering, product, and other partners to build software that is clean
• Develop modern APIs that integrate different surfaces with server backends
• Promote engineering of well-designed, reusable and secure systems to improve payment acceptance and secure Square customers
• Promote engineering best practices and help define technical roadmap for the team
• Focus on delivering fault tolerant systems that allow teams to move quickly without negatively affecting our customers
• Raise awareness and promote adoption of new authentication mechanism within Square and beyond
• Complete on-site responsibilities at the Toronto hardware lab as needed

Qualifications

You have:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience in delivery of high-scale software solutions
• Willingness to collaborate and grow as an engineer
• Expertise in C and Python development

Even better:

• Experience with EMV Specifications, Credit/Debit Chip Specifications
• Experience working building software for payment terminals
• Experience working in payments industry