Front-End Engineer, Design
- Full-time
Company Description
Square creates products and services that push boundaries and innovate business. Our design team has one simple but lofty goal: deliver a breathtaking experience to our customers. You'll have the opportunity to build extraordinary web applications that are reliable, fast, responsive, and beautiful.
Products we work on:
Register: our point of sale. Everything a seller needs to start, run, and grow their business
Capital: simple access to funds for growing a business
- Caviar: powering fast delivery from restaurants you love
Job Description
You will:
Work closely with design, product management, and engineering teams to understand needs and develop solutions to improve end-user experience and operations
Develop delightful web experiences that are clean, pragmatic, and visionary
Apply state of the art technology as it’s developed to creatively solve problems - everything needs to be fast and real-time
Qualifications
You have:
Strong knowledge of, and experience with, modern HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Experience with responsive web development
An understanding of the principles of design, UI, and user experience
Experience writing clean code with or without the assistance of pre-processors (e.g. Sass/Less, HAML/Slim, CoffeeScript) and libraries (e.g. jQuery, Underscore)
Exposure to a recently popular JS-app framework (e.g. Ember, Angular, React)
Knowledge of computer science fundamentals and code organization
Even better:
Comfortable straddling design, client-side, and server-side development, contributing to every aspect of the product experience
Experience testing your code (e.g. RSpec, QUnit, Mocha, Jasmine)
Experience in or desire to learn Rails, jQuery, Ember, React, CoffeeScript, Sass, and other web-app frameworks
Passion for economic empowerment
Additional Information
At Square, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.