Senior Software Engineer, Payment Platform
- Full-time
- Current Square Employee?: Apply via go/jobs with your Square email.
Company Description
Job Description
As a software engineer on the Payments team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the Payments Platform services and infrastructure that moves money for Square. You will be deeply involved in the technical details of building highly available and reliable services, while also working with product teams to enable Square to rapidly build new capabilities for our merchants and buyers all over the world.
You will:
Build our Payments Platform, used by the rest of the organization and a key strategic asset of Square
Design and implement high-volume, low-latency, distributed transaction processing systems, making thoughtful tradeoffs between consistency and availability when both are not possible
Abstract away the legacy APIs of the financial world into consistent, coherent service APIs for Square’s products to build upon
Build systems that manage customers’ sensitive data and hold Square to the highest standards for security and compliance
Work cross-functionally with our product, business, and finance teams to develop Square’s global payments strategy
See the big picture to design fault tolerant systems so the team can be brave, move fast, and break things, without ever showing a negative impact to customers
Qualifications
You have:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Interest in working on backend systems, from APIs and business logic to optimizing database transactions
- Interest in modeling complex domains and building resilient systems to support real world applications at scale
- Strong software development skills and computer science fundamentals
Technologies we use and teach include:
Java, Ruby
Guice, Guava, Protocol Buffers, gRPC, jOOQ, Rails, Ember, Envoy
MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Snowflake
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