Senior Software Engineer, Block
Orders Data Platform
$142.2-204.5k
Plus equity and employee stock purchase program available; Salary dependent on location
Financial services ecosystem
Job no longer available
Financial services ecosystem
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$142.2-204.5k
Plus equity and employee stock purchase program available; Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create better tools to help everyone access the economy.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Familiarity with architecting/implementing Java-/Kotlin-based backend services
- Strong product intuition and interest, with platform-building experience
- Strategic leadership experience on medium/large-scale software projects
- Interest and experience in mentoring other engineers
Desirable
- Experience and familiarity with Kotlin, GraphQL, Elasticsearch, and AWS technologies
- Proficiency in large-scale Ruby projects, or a history and interest in quickly learning new technologies and stacks
- History of contributions to open-source projects
- Familiarity with the payments-processing domain
What the job involves
- We are the Orders Data Platform team, a team whose mission is to help merchants of all sizes gain insights from their sales data through a variety of interfaces
- We sit at the center of critical domains and data flows, and we’re building a multi-layered platform to achieve our goals with Square-wide impact
- We’re looking for a senior engineer who can help us build new platform features to dramatically improve user-facing search and reporting experiences at Square
- We provide a unified view of Orders/Orders-adjacent data at Square, and powering a variety of interfaces for our teams and third-party developers to access that data
- You’ll work with teams to understand requirements, and ensure the platform we’re building works across several distinct use cases
- To power that view of Orders, we’re also building a general-purpose Elasticsearch- and GraphQL-based search and reporting platform that can operate at Square scale
- This general-purpose platform already powers search and reporting for a variety of teams at Square in production, and we’re continuing to evolve it for our collective use cases
- We build in the open, and look forward to open-sourcing this platform in 2024 for even wider impact
- Work with Product and partners across Square to identify platform requirements, and work within the engineering team to develop the corresponding features
- Provide high-quality hands-on contributions across multiple code bases
- Identify technical and architectural end states for the project, and influence/evolve the code case in those directions
- Play a key role in choosing technical investments for the team
- Technologies we use within Orders Data Platform: Java, Kotlin, Ruby, GraphQL, Elasticsearch, DynamoDb, Terraform, AWS Lambda, SQS, Cloudwatch
Our take
Block is a financial services technology company comprising of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD. Its biggest brand, Square, offers hardware and software for small to medium-sized businesses enabling them to manage the entire payment lifecycle. It functions similarly to Shopify and Stripe, but has paired online payment processing with physical devices such as registers, payment terminals, and mobile card readers.
The business was originally founded as Square in 2009 by Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame. Already well-established with SMEs all over the globe, Square has significantly benefited from the increased demand for mobile payment systems. Its order management feature remains a go-to tool for small businesses that otherwise didn't have the proper infrastructure in place when demand for home delivery surged.
Square rebranded as Block in December 2021, with the Square brand name remaining in place for their seller business. The company has since come under fire for its security practices, facing lawsuits in relation to a major breach of CashApp user data, and in 2024 announced plans to reduce its workforce in order to cut costs. Despite these setbacks, there is every chance the business will move past this, though it may take some time to rebuild trust in its product.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Healthcare coverage (Medical, Vision and Dental insurance)
- Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account
- Retirement Plans including company match
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance
- Paid parental and caregiving leave
- Paid time off (including 12 paid holidays)
- Paid sick leave (1 hour per 26 hours worked (max 80 hours per calendar year to the extent legally permissible) for non-exempt employees and covered by our Flexible Time Off policy for exempt employees)
- Learning and Development resources
- Paid Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jack Dorsey
(CEO)Having studied at and dropped out of New York University, Jack founded Twitter in March 2006, where he has served as CEO since. He co-founded Square with Jim in February 2009, and has remained its CEO ever since.
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