Senior Software Engineer, Payment Intelligence
- Full-time
- Alternate Location: San Francisco, United States
Company Description
Job Description
Square processes billions of dollars worth of transactions every year. At that scale, even small optimizations can lead to huge business impact. Payment Intelligence makes data-driven improvements to core payment profitability by focusing on pricing, routing, decline rates and transaction cost. This work has a direct impact on Square’s profitability and financial success. This team consists of engineers that work together closely with data scientists and analysts to find and implement optimizations to our payment stack. In addition, Payment Intelligence owns the payment pricing platform at Square. It invents and develops innovative price models such as custom pricing and cost-plus to make pricing more enticing for sellers.
Ongoing Challenges
Transaction Cost datastore – We are utilizing the next-generation cloud data infrastructure in order to provide a stable data foundation to do ML training and calculate transaction cost real time.
Pricing Platform - as Square’s product ecosystem is growing, we need to support ever changing pricing requirements and invent new price models to make them more enticing for sellers.
Routing Recommendation - We optimize our profit margin by finding the best route for payment transactions to be routed to vendors based on ML-based cost predictions and business rules.
Qualifications
You will:
Make data-driven decisions
Provide data infrastructure for surrounding groups
Implement cost optimizations and new pricing platform features
Evaluate ML and cloud based platforms and services
Work cross-functionally with our product, business, and finance teams to develop Square’s global payments strategy
You have:
BA/BS degree or equivalent practical, working experience (5+ years preferred)
Experience in working cross-functionally and building architecting data ML and analytics solutions
Innate curiosity and a desire to be responsible for all aspects of reliably moving billions of dollars in a small, highly focused team
Understanding and curiosity in creating highly available, scalable, low-latency data systems
Interest in changing the payments landscape in the US and globally
Technologies we use:
Java, Python
Guice, Guava, gRPC, Protocol Buffers
MySQL, Airflow, Tensorflow, Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, DataFlow, PubSub, CloudML etc.)
Additional Information
Perks
At Square, we want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:
- Healthcare coverage
- Retirement Plans
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Wellness perks
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible time off
- Learning and Development resources