Square is looking to advance its enterprise capabilities by establishing technical architecture and a multi-year strategy for its enterprise offerings, aiming to define reliable and scalable unified experiences for its largest customers.
Requirements
- 12+ years of engineering industry experience building for the Web, with a BS Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Proven record of successfully delivering large features (spanning ~1+ year) from start to finish with strong collaboration, communication, and ownership.
- Demonstrated experience leading architecture and system design for cross-functional, multi-quarter projects.
- 5+ years experience building with React at scale.
- Understand and curiosity in creating well thought out, scalable, low-latency, global systems.
- JavaScript, Typescript
- React, Ember, Storybook / Chromatic
Responsibilities
- Lead system design and architecture across broad technical domains, delivering durable, scalable, and secure systems that meet the evolving needs of F&B sellers.
- Identify and solve Square's most critical technical challenges on the web—such as cross-product integration, high-performance user interfaces at scale, and delivering seamless, end-to-end experiences across the platform.
- Develop long-term architectural strategies that improve developer experience, enable velocity, and reduce operational risk across web surfaces.
- Influence engineering direction across multiple teams by writing high-quality design documents, contributing to RFCs, and leading collaborative technical decision-making.
- Drive technical execution for critical product and platform initiatives, often working across team boundaries to align infrastructure, frontend, and backend layers.
- Lead modernization and migration efforts—incrementally evolving our architecture toward best-in-class systems without service disruption.
Other
- A sense of customer empathy and desire to influence the product direction.
- Block is an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class.
- We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.
- We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible.
- Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location.
