Software Engineer (Backend/Fullstack), Web Point of Sale
- Full-time
- Alternate Location: Seattle, United States
Company Description
Job Description
While Square is best known for the Point of Sale application that runs natively on iOS, Android, and Square-branded hardware devices - our team manages the Virtual Terminal product that enables computer-based sellers to accept payments using a web browser, without the need for a separate device. Virtual Terminal has been used to process remote payments over the phone, but now you will help our iniatives to expand the Virtual Terminal capabilities to support in-person use cases and more complex sellers - creating a suite of products for computer-based sellers in the US and across the globe. You will report to the engineering manager and work with other product and platform teams at Square.
To learn more about the Virtual Terminal product: https://squareup.com/us/en/payments/virtual-terminal
You Will:
As a Backend or Full-Stack Engineer on the team, you will...
- Work with your fellow engineers and teammates to ensure that Square provides a comprehensive and cohesive web-based product to end-users;
- Engineer designs and implementations of impactful end-user product features;
- Help the team improve existing and establish new engineering patterns and processes to guarantee a successful development cycle
Qualifications
You Have:
- Excellent software engineering knowledge and a product mindset;
- 4+ years professional experience working on web application backend systems in Java, Go, or Ruby;
- Experience modeling data and working with relational databases;
- Experience with or interest in learning about AWS or other cloud computing platforms;
- Experience with or interest in learning about modern HTML, CSS, and JavaScript UI Frameworks (React, Ember, Vue).
- Experience or a desire to achieve a great product;
- A sense of customer empathy and an interest in the product direction.
Technologies we use:
- Java / Guice / MySQL / Protocol Buffers / gRPC / JUnit
- AWS - Terraform, S3, SNS, SQS, IAM
- CDN - Fastly, CloudFront
- ES6 JavaScript / TypeScript / EmberJS / SCSS / QUnit / Cypress
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
- Paid time off
- Learning and Development resources