Software Engineering Manager, Caviar Cloud Platform

  • Full-time

Company Description

Caviar is changing the way businesses and consumers order food from restaurants. We believe that everyone should have access to the best eateries in their city without any hassles. Want your favorite burger joint, but hate the traffic and long lines? We're a team of passionate foodies solving that exact problem for your home and office. At Caviar, we believe in an environment that allows you to be creative and go beyond the call of duty. We're looking for exceptionally talented individuals who want to learn and grow with the company. Each and every day counts - you'll make a direct impact to the business starting from Day 1.

Job Description

As the engineering manager for Caviar Cloud Platform, you will own the tools and infrastructure that make Caviar engineers effective. You will lead a talented team of engineers to accelerate our product development velocity; continuously improve visibility, monitoring, and reliability; consult with product teams on effective use of platform tools and technologies; and influence team-wide architecture, culture, and process. Ultimately, you are building products and services where your customers are your fellow engineers.

 

You will:

  • Set your team’s vision and roadmap by thoroughly understanding your customers’ needs

  • Own the broad problem of continuously levelling up the effectiveness of a 30+ person engineering organization (via platform services, tools, education, cultural shifts, process, etc)

  • Build a world-class team by hiring exceptional talent, coaching and developing your team, cultivating pragmatic engineering decision-making, and leveraging your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar

  • Lead and participate in critical discussions with leaders across our product, engineering, and operations teams

  • Hold your teammates, and yourself, to high engineering standards

  • Build systems, services, and tools that have immediate impact on other engineers

  • Collaborate with engineering teams across Square to make the most of cloud services

  • Participate in day-to-day development, including writing code, reviewing pull requests, and debugging issues

Qualifications

You have:

  • 5+ years of software development or equivalent experience

  • 1+ year of management or equivalent experience

  • Experience developing product infrastructure and web services using AWS or another cloud service

  • Strong self-motivation to learn and grow

  • BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience

 

Technologies we use and teach:

  • Ruby, Rails, Python, AWS (ECS, CloudFormation, RDS, etc.)

  • PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq

  • JavaScript, Ember.js, React

Additional Information

At Square, our purpose is to empower – within and outside of our walls. In order to build the best tools for the businesses and customers we support all over the world, we have to start at home with a workforce as diverse and empowered as our sellers. To this end, we take great care to evaluate all employees and job applicants equally, based on merit, competence, and qualifications. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Applicants in need of special assistance or accommodation during the interview process or in accessing our website may contact us by sending an email to assistance(at)squareup.com. We will treat your request as confidentially as possible. In your email, please include your name and preferred method of contact, and we will respond as soon as possible.

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