Android Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

We believe the economy is better when everyone has access. When everyone has room to grow. No one should be left out because the cost is too great or the technology too complex. We started with a little white credit card reader but haven’t stopped there. We’re empowering the independent electrician to send invoices, setting up the favorite food truck with a delivery option, helping the ice cream shop pay its employees, and giving the burgeoning coffee chain capital for a second, third, and fourth location. 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

Squares Pricing team is a full-stack team creating technology that allows our merchants to bill the right amount for their products at the right time.  We are developing new systems to offer sophisticated pricing and tax models to merchants of all types and scales in countries around the world. We are responsible for internal services, integrations with Squares payment technology, and customer facing features on both mobile and web.  Were building a platform that is modular, highly available, scalable, secure and forward-looking.

We are looking for a talented individual to help build a delightful, performant, and reliable mobile platform  that will be used by millions of merchants around the world to run core aspects of their business. If you are able to think modularly, want to create beautiful tools to empower small merchants, and are able to work on a sophisticated and complex mobile platform, the Pricing team may be for you.

You will:

  • Build our Pricing Platform, a key strategic asset of Square that handles pricing, taxes, and billing for millions of merchants

  • Build elegant user-facing Android experiences that combine intuitive interfaces with smooth performance at scale

  • Build systems that manage sensitive customer data while holding Square to the highest standards for security and compliance

  • Achieve the levels of reliability and correctness that merchants expect when they entrust Square with their financial transactions

  • Empower millions of small merchants to focus on their businesses and not their business technology

Qualifications

You have:

  • Innate curiosity and a desire to be responsible for reliably moving millions of dollars in a small, highly focused team

  • Experience building large Android applications in a distributed environment

  • Track record of pursuing self directed side projects, research, or open source projects

Technologies we use:

  • Java for most Android development, with a small but growing Kotlin codebase

  • J2ObjC for sharing business logic across platforms

Check out Android @Square:

  • https://medium.com/square-corner-blog/advocating-against-android-fragments-81fd0b462c97

  • https://medium.com/square-corner-blog/android-spring-cleaning-tech-talks-ae2a2196e111

  • http://square.github.io/#android

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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