Staff Engineer, Block
Frontend/Fullstack, Public Web
$168.3-297k
Salary dependent on location. This role is also eligible to participate in Block's equity plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies
Financial services ecosystem
Job no longer available
Financial services ecosystem
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$168.3-297k
Salary dependent on location. This role is also eligible to participate in Block's equity plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create better tools to help everyone access the economy.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and modern web frameworks (especially Svelte and/or React)
- Extensive experience in web markup languages (HTML5 and CSS3), backend technologies such (NodeJS, ExpressJS and Ruby), and front-end build tools (Webpack, ESbuild, and Vite)
- Proven record of consistently delivering large features (spanning ~1+ year with multiple milestones) and large teams from start to finish with strong collaboration, communication, and ownership
- Expertise in building web apps and large-scale applications
- Expertise with modern front-end and server-side rendering technologies and frameworks (Svelte and React)
- Highly effective communicator to all disciplines and comfortable presenting and demoing work to large audiences
- Hands-on experience setting up and maintaining large-scale web applications with a substantial contributor base (dozens of active weekly contributors)
- Deeply comfortable with and able to apply software development design principles (SOLID, DRY) in daily work
- Enjoy working in a collaborative environment and partner with other cross-disciplinary teams (designers, design technologists, product managers, data scientists) to achieve optimal results
- Proficiency with CI pipelines and cloud infrastructure (mainly AWS and Cloudflare)
- Excellence in test coverage (unit, and end-to-end)
- Experience being on-call, and are comfortable working under pressure
What the job involves
- The Public Web team is a full-stack engineering team responsible for the architecture, infrastructure and site reliability of Square’s marketing website - www.squareup.com
- Square’s public website is one of the key surface areas to drive consideration and conversion with prospective Sellers
- The website supports both self-onboarded (signup/download the app) and sales-onboarded (lead form submission/MQL) paths, making it a critical front door for window shoppers and purchasing moments
- We have an exciting time ahead of us with key initiatives such as a full site redesign to give it soul and simplify discovery for our customers
- We are working with product and design teams to redefine information architecture and build an audience focused journey
- We are also in a platform re-architecture journey where we are moving to a microservices architecture with goals to improve resiliency, page performance, page build time and developer experience
- Square recently consolidated all members of our web engineering discipline into a centralized organization, specifically to elevate our velocity and quality
- You will be part of this transformational time, to help establish the blueprint for modern and high velocity front-end development at scale, and work with other experts in the web engineering org
- Build and support Square’s Public Web - a surface used by millions of Square sellers to discover the ecosystem of Square’s offerings - ensuring we are proud to sign our names to the experiences we enable there
- Identify and explore ways to improve application architecture, testing, and build pipeline
- Continually seek to optimize and improve the seller experience
- Iterate rapidly on features, tooling, and processes
- Work with other senior front-end engineers to establish and evangelize best practices and patterns
- Write code to serve a server side rendered CMS based website
- Write code to build the design system that allows Design Technologists and content authors to build and deploy web pages in a no-code and low-code manner
- Support an ongoing effort to fully deprecate a legacy Ruby on Rails stack
- Prioritize and advocate for tooling and build investments to add leverage for every front-end engineer
- Actively participate in reviewing technical documents and roadmaps to advocate for the right architectural tradeoffs
- Advocate for process improvements within the team/organization in a critical, but thoughtful and empathetic way
- Mentor engineers across the organization, evolving and instilling a culture of high quality and high velocity work
Application process
- While there is no specific deadline to apply for this role, on average, U.S. open roles are posted for 70 days before being filled by a successful candidate
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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