Job Description

The Retail Catalog team is responsible for ensuring sellers are able to manage their catalogs on Square for Retail. Efficient catalog management is crucial for retailers as they typically have larger, more complex catalogs (think 10 shirts x 10 colors = 100 items already!). This team builds workflows that allow retailers to seamlessly create and update their catalogs and works closely with ML engineers to introduce innovative features that make the user experience delightful.

Our small, collaborative team has already built many features, including the ability to generate product descriptions using machine learning. We want to transform how retailers sell and operate, we focus on making it so they can spend less time on catalog management and more time on running their businesses. We’re a part of the Square ecosystem and are using our position to build products and features that are beyond the capabilities of our competitors.

You are a product-minded, customer-focused, software engineer who can help take world-changing ideas from prototype to launch.

You Will:

• Champion the needs of our retail seller customer base, through customer empathy, iteration, and service ownership

• Write clean, testable, peer-reviewed code, which will be a model for the team around you

• Contribute to a diverse portfolio of engineering projects

• Oversee the development and live operation of a distributed architecture

• Advocate for change in quality, durability, and technical debt reduction, working directly with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and other key partners

• Revitalize services and architectures which have outlasted their original implementations, through refactoring, migration, and scale-ready, distributed architectural design

• Unleash the velocity of our engineers and engineering systems with processes and implementations that allow us to ship quicker, fail faster, and isolate the blast radius of change pipelines

• Mentor teammates and provide acceleration of team learning and execution

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of industry experience

• A curious, passionate, growth-oriented mindset

• Experience leading large, complex projects that span multiple teams

• Experience with modern programing languages like Java, Ruby, or Python

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Software design experience with distributed architectures that have seen growth
• Familiarity with Ember
• Experience working with Java
• Monitoring and observability expertise
• Experience building and deploying to cloud infrastructure