Square's Food & Beverage team is building a modern product ecosystem to support restaurants in an increasingly dynamic landscape. The Back of House operations, specifically the Kitchen Display System (KDS) and printed paper tickets, are crucial for timely and accurate order preparation. The Staff Android Engineer will enhance the performance and reliability of Square's Android solutions for these critical restaurant operations.
Requirements
- 12+ years of Android development experience.
- We make heavy use of Kotlin, Workflow, and Jetpack Compose
- Proven experience in architecting and leading complex Android projects at scale
- Strong collaboration skills, with experience working across team and organizational boundaries to deliver cohesive, user-focused solutions
- A track record of being self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in a fast-paced environment
- Proven ability to influence technical direction across organizational boundaries
- Excellence in technical communication and relationship building across disciplines
Responsibilities
- Architect and improve the KDS codebase to support diverse merchant workflows within a single product
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers across teams to deliver high-quality, scalable features
- Champion best practices in Android development, ensuring code quality, performance, and maintainability
- Identify, debug, and solve deep, complex technical problems that cross organizational boundaries
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers, fostering a culture of learning and innovation
- Identify and drive improvements in our Android development processes and tools, contributing to the technical roadmap
- Proactively identify and advocate for strategic technical initiatives, building alignment with peers and leadership
Other
- Participate in and lead incident response, including on-call rotations and post-mortem processes
- Move between the Solver and Architect archetypes, spending the majority of your time actively in or around code (be that Kotlin, Java, SQL, LookML, etc.)
- History of mentoring and growing engineering talent
- Block is an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class.
- We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible.
