Staff Fullstack Engineer, Squarespace
Identity Platform, Javascript
$170-299k
+ Equity
Website builder and ecommerce platform
Job no longer available
Website builder and ecommerce platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$170-299k
+ Equity
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 4+ years across the backend such as Java, Node or Python
- Have experience building and executing on long-term technical strategy
- Keep a user-first perspective while building your products
- Have experience building out platformized UI components
- Thrive in ambiguous situations
- Have experience and interest in working on identity platform teams
- Enjoy thinking about systems/platforms and services and writing high quality code
What the job involves
- Squarespace is looking for a Fullstack Staff Software Engineer on the Identity Platform team within the Foundations Platform Engineering group
- Teams in the Foundations group develop building blocks and solutions to help accelerate and standardize product design and development
- The Identity Platform team is responsible for Squarespace's main login, and the authentication and authorization of all users
- Delivering a highly secure and scalable platform while providing a delightful user experience is key to building customer trust and happiness, and you are able build successful products by thinking strategically and keeping a user-first perspective
- In this role, you will be reporting to the Engineering Manager of the Identity Platform in our NY office. This is a hybrid opportunity
- Create medium to long term technical strategies for the platformization of the user interfaces for login, authorization, and other UIs that we own and collaborate with engineers across the organization to execute on the strategy
- Tie technical investments to business priorities to ensure alignment of technical goals with Product and company goals
- Lead fullstack architecture discussions with engineers within and outside of the team
- Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies
- Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency)
- Work with engineering teams across the company to enhance our identity platforms and ensure the successful adoption of best practices
- Influence, coach, and mentor engineers on the team and across the organization
- Mentor and grow engineers on the team
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.
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