Front End Engineer, Restaurants

  • 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, helping the ice cream shop pay its employees, and giving the burgeoning coffee chain capital for a second, third, and fourth location. Let’s shorten the distance between having an idea and making a living from it. 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

The Restaurants team at Square is reimagining the hospitality industry to free today’s restaurants from crippling, archaic software and inefficient workflows.  We’re diners, fans, and admirers of the people working in the food and drink business and we want to do our part to help them succeed.

We are taking a fresh look at this industry and building a modern product ecosystem that capitalizes on the themes of efficiency, automation, and reliability – which are becoming the cornerstones of the new breed of hospitality tools. In the dining room, Square sees the Point of Sale becoming increasingly mobile and moving to the diner, while restaurants realize new revenue streams that both complement and compete with their front of house businesses. We’re addressing the needs of restaurants in this dynamic landscape with intuitive yet sophisticated iOS, Android, and Web-based software that integrates seamlessly with our hardware, all backed by reliable services.

A centerpiece of the Square for Restaurants solution is its powerful Dashboard. Restaurant managers and owners use Dashboard to create and manage their accounts, manage their menus, configure their Points of Sale, take in reporting that helps them understand their customers and their business, and more.

Dashboard is defining. Our customers can get up and running themselves, a first for the industry – and they tell us they’re able to take direct control of Square for Restaurants like no competing product. We work hard to ensure that Dashboard presents an elegant, intuitive UI so that our customers can get the most out of our extremely flexible product suite.

The Restaurants team is extending Dashboard to help our customers take fuller advantage of our Restaurants products and the Square ecosystem, grow their business with new revenue streams, and understand their own customers and operations even better. We want to do all of these while making Dashboard even more intuitive and helpful, and we’re looking for skillful and inventive developers to join us in that challenge.

What you will learn and do

  • You'll help create beautiful, unique products which allow anyone to evaluate our products, set up a restaurant, understand their customers, and run and grow their business – using desktop and mobile browsers
  • You’ll ship reliable software through continuous integration, test automation, and in-depth code reviews
  • You’ll work in a continuous deployment cycle, using ad-hoc development builds to test and demo new features internally
  • You’ll help maintain a large, highly active frontend codebase
  • You'll envision new products and features that are inspired, considered, and magical
  • You'll find simple, elegant solutions to hard problems
  • You'll work closely and collaboratively with experienced designers, product managers, and engineers; both on our team and with our friends on other teams.
  • You’ll have opportunities to participate in open source communities like Ember.js
  • You’ll grow as an engineer, and as you do you’ll lift others around you.

Qualifications

What you bring to the team and to Square

  • Innate curiosity and a desire to build beautiful, sophisticated, intuitive products for the food and drink service industry
  • Motivation to design and build reliable products
  • Real empathy for your audience working in restaurants, and for your colleagues at Square
  • Eagerness to share your own ideas, and openness to those of others
  • A collaborative approach to designing and building apps with your teammates and with other teams and offices
  • Strong programming and software development skills
  • Experience developing web applications
  • Experience shipping and improving products

We’re looking for someone with a bachelor’s degree in computer science (or an equivalent degree), and 2-5 years of professional software development experience.

Technologies we use and teach

  • Web app development in Javascript/ES6 and CSS/SASS
  • Component-based application development with Ember.js
  • Codemods, linters, yarn, and npm for maintaining our large, active code base
  • Protobuf for service APIs
  • Full-stack opportunities with services in Ruby, Java, and Go
  • And much, much more. Square is a great place to learn all kinds of technology!
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