Software Engineering Manager, Payments API

  • Full-time
  • Alternate Location: Oakland, United States

Company Description

Since we first opened our doors in 2009, the world of commerce has evolved immensely – and so has Square. After enabling anyone to take a payment and never miss a sale, we saw sellers stymied by disparate, outmoded products and tools that wouldn’t work together. So we expanded into software and started building integrated, omnichannel solutions – to help sellers sell online, manage inventory, run a busy kitchen, book appointments, engage loyal buyers, and hire and pay staff. And across it all, we’ve embedded financial services tools at the point of sale, so merchants can access a business loan and manage their cash flow all in one place.

Today, we’re a partner to sellers of all sizes – large, enterprise-scale businesses with complex commerce operations, sellers just starting out, as well as merchants who began selling with Square and have grown larger over time. As our sellers scale, so do our solutions. We all grow together.

There is a massive opportunity in front of us. We’re building a business that is big, meaningful, and lasting. And we are helping sellers around the world do the same.

Job Description

Square's Payment Platform is an open, global financial services platform for developers who serve our merchants. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Payment API group, leading a backend team responsible for building the payments APIs that move money for Square (check us out!). The team is focused on creating a reliable interface to the payments stack for 1st party and 3rd party products. You will be involved in the technical details of building available and reliable services while also working with product teams to allow Square to build new capabilities for our merchants and buyers worldwide.

You will:

  • Guide a team of up to 8 engineers as they add to our existing APIs and build new APIs.
  • Ensure continued operational excellence, supporting the team as they own and operate both public and private Payment APIs.
  • Foster long-term thinking and creativity in a complex space, and promote your organization to support our business.
  • Export the team's best practices to the rest of Square, and support other teams that operate high availability services and public APIs
  • Collaborate with product management, design, senior engineering, product leadership, and your peers to develop the strategy for your team.
  • Develop efficient processes, ensuring the engineering team operates with high velocity, ownership, and accountability to our customers.
  • Oversee the success of your team's projects and achieve quantifiable results.

Qualifications

You have:

  • BA/BS degree or equivalent practical working experience (8+ years preferred)
  • Experience building backend systems
  • 2+ years of experience as a Software Engineering Manager
  • Experience with payments or public APIs

Additional Information

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. 

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page

Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Perks

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

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.

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