Technical Engineering Lead, Capital Markets

  • Full-time

Company Description

We believe everyone should be able to participate and thrive in the economy. So we’re building tools that make commerce easier and more accessible to all. We started with a little white credit card reader but haven’t stopped there. Our new reader helps our sellers accept chip cards and NFC payments, and our Cash app lets people pay each other back instantly. We’re empowering the independent electrician to send invoices, setting up the favorite food truck with a delivery option, and helping the ice cream shop pay its employees. And, with Square Capital, we have extended over $1 billion in funding to our sellers, helping them manage their cashflow and making it easy to invest in and grow their business. Let’s shorten the distance between having an idea and making a living from it. And make it easier for customers to shop and pay at their favorite businesses. We’re here to help sellers of all sizes start, run, and grow their business—and helping them grow their business is good business for everyone.

Job Description

Square’s rapidly growing small business financing product, Square Capital, has revolutionized the way businesses obtain the capital needed to accomplish their goals. Unlike traditional financing products, Square Capital offers are extended to pre-qualified sellers with no application process, funds are deposited as soon as the next business day, and repayment happens as a fixed percentage of daily card sales. Since the product launched in 2014, Square Capital has already extended more than $1 billion to tens of thousands of Square sellers - and we’re just getting started.

As a Technical Engineering Lead on Square Capital, you will be responsible for designing, building, and owning the services and infrastructure that power our products. You will build beautiful web applications and design highly available services that form complex distributed systems. Our investor platform spans the stack, from a web-based investor portal on the front-end to data-crunching jobs and millions of dollars in money transfers on the back-end. If you have a passion for the intersection between finance and technology, and a dedication to precision and detail in software design and development, we want to work with you!

You Will:

  • Work closely with product and design partners, and Square leadership, to design and build new systems to offer our leading financial services to investors using our platform.
  • Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership.
  • Orchestrate the reliable, secure, and accurate movement of millions of dollars per day to and from our investors
  • Massively scale our existing investor platform, from the datastores to the distributed coordination mechanisms depending on them to serve hundreds or thousands of investors
  • Build systems that generate reports and analytics that operate over massive amounts of sensitive data, while maintaining high performance and absolute accuracy
  • Design fault tolerant systems so the team can be brave and move fast, without ever negatively impacting our customers.

Qualifications

You Have:

  • 5+ years of industry experience
  • An Interest in working full-stack, from optimizing database transactions to building distributed systems and frontend web applications.
  • Passion for building products that are beautiful outside and inside – from their user experience to their robust and elegant design.
  • Strong software development skills and computer science fundamentals.
  • Excellent software engineering aptitude and the ability to provide technical mentorship and guidance

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.

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