Staff Software Engineer, Squarespace
User Platform, Frontend
$185.5-299k
Website builder and ecommerce platform
Job no longer available
Website builder and ecommerce platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$185.5-299k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people with creative ideas stand out and succeed.
Role
Who you are
- Have 10+ years of experience developing production systems with at least 8+ years of building user-facing products and platforms with JavaScript (including ReactJS) and familiarity withbackends such as Java, Golang or Python
- Have experience building and implementing long-term technical strategy
- Keep a user-first perspective while building your products
- Have experience building out modular UI components that help other teams easily integrate features into their applications
- Have experience and interest in OAuth, WebAuthN, IdentityProviders, Identity and Access Management
- Enjoy thinking about systems/platforms and services and writing high-quality code
What the job involves
- Write. Create medium to long term technical strategies for login, authorization, and customer dashboards. Clearly and concisely write that strategy and collaborate with engineers across the organization. to implement the strategy
- Plan. Tie technical investments to business priorities, lead architecture discussions and design reviews, and contribute to product roadmap planning
- Execute. Create project work breakdowns for the team, increase how quickly the team can iterate, provide code reviews, and individual feature development
- Collaborate. Work with engineering teams across the company
- Influence and mentor engineers on the team and across the organization, be a champion of our Values of Protecting Creativity, Learn Fast - Act Fast and Simplify
Our take
Chances are you have already landed on a website developed using Squarespace. Millions of small businesses, entrepreneurs, creatives, and professionals have used the company's suite of products manage their projects and businesses through websites, domains, e-commerce, marketing tools and scheduling.
Thanks to its ability to allow anybody to build a website without any coding knowledge, Squarespace has positioned itself as an industry leader, despite fierce competition from the likes of WordPress and Shopify, who are both larger businesses on paper.
Since its creation in a dorm room in 2003, Squarespace launched a direct-listing on the New York Stock Exchange in May 2021 with a valuation of $6.8 billion, though this has dropped to $4.8 billion in the proceeding few years. Nevertheless, Squarespace has expanded to offer a wide range of tools that go beyond simple website production. The company remains focused on further developing new capabilities, all whilst maintaining its overall goal of simplicity.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2021
$300m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jul 2019
$0.1m
GRANT
Total funding: $378.8m
Company benefits
- 100% health, dental and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Up to 20 weeks of paid family leave
- Fertility & adoption benefits
- 401k match
- Flexible PTO
- Mental health coverage, including free access to Talkspace, Headspace, and Ginger
- Equity plan for all employees
- Donation match
Company HQ
Hudson Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Anthony Casalena
(CEO)Studied Computer Science at University of Maryland. Founded Squarespace in 2003 and has served as CEO since its inception. Remains actively involved in the engineering, design, and product teams within the organization.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job