Job Description

We’re looking for passionate, experienced, web application (full-stack) engineers for our Square Shop team. We are a thriving group, building high-profile websites and back-end systems. Your role would play an essential part in how Square connects to and educates our merchants, and their customers.

This is a lead role, leading a team of 2-3 engineers - the scope and scale of our system(s) are growing quickly and this role will be responsible for ensuring that our systems and our people/team scale accordingly and appropriately. 

You will:

• Work on our eCommerce ordering platform, in partnership with our fulfillment, logistics, sales, and marketing teams, to get Square hardware into the hands of our merchants.
• Define and scaffold integrations with third-party APIs.
• Architect large-scale systems that keep things running smoothly.
• Get mentoring and help, mentor others and provide constructive code and design reviews.
• Get a balanced, supportive, fun work environment and career path.

Qualifications

You have:

• 8+ years of solid, practical, and ideally high-profile experience.
• An interest in web application development and online systems.
• You are very comfortable in at least one object-oriented language, and associated web framework. Don’t worry about which one—we’ll train you in Ruby (and Rails).
• Tenacity but are also flexible 

Technologies we use (and teach):

• Ruby, Rails
• MySQL, Redis
• JavaScript, React, and Sass
• Protobufs and gRPC
• AWS