Software Architect, Block
Globalization
$172.2-247.5k
Financial services ecosystem
Job no longer available
Financial services ecosystem
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$172.2-247.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create better tools to help everyone access the economy.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree plus 8+ years of industry experience or equivalent
- Have led medium-to-large features and multi-person efforts that crossed engineering team boundaries
- Have technical expertise on best internationalization frameworks and technologies for tech stacks across enterprise systems, web, and mobile
- Know about Unicode, CLDR, IANA, International standards, and i18n library implementations
- Excel in a collaborative environment involving partners spanning multiple roles and technical levels
- Are motivated to empower global customers with respect for their local values and cultures
- Have demonstrated experience learning new software development environments
Desirable
- Experience in online payments, Unicode, CLDR, and writing i18n libraries
- Active participant or contributor in the Unicode Consortium, CLDR, ECMA 402, or other open-source internationalization-related standards or libraries
- Familiar with translation management systems (TMSs) and content management systems (CMS)
- Master's degree and 10+ years of experience
- Fluency in more than one language. Understanding or fluency in a right-to-left (RTL) language
- Hands-on experience bringing a product from creation to global launch, or even better, to a market that uses a right-to-left (RTL) language
What the job involves
- As an Internationalization Engineer/Architect, you will prioritize and drive initiatives from inception through execution
- You'll be uniquely positioned to have your customers be all product engineers at Square and any partners who rely on you and your team's internationalization libraries, tools, and utilities to bring Square products to the globe
- Be a software architect, leading the internationalization and localization efforts of the development team
- Partner with the product teams (engineers, product managers, designers, UX creators) to help design and implement internationalization changes across all Square products that benefit the downstream localization process and the global user experience
- Educate engineers and partners on internationalization best practices
- Develop internationalization (i18n) infrastructure for online payment and point-of-sale systems
- Make decisions on the best open source and develop internationalization libraries and keep them up to date with the latest global standards
- Use CLDR and Unicode to create language-specific resources for multiple regions
- Create content and code localization-readiness scanning and linting tools for the CI/CD development infrastructure
- Recommend or create multi-regional solutions for the payments and point-of-sale industry
- Ensure that software is performant, scalable, and maintainable
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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