Square builds common business tools in unconventional ways so more people can start, run, and grow their businesses. When Square started, it was difficult and expensive (or just plain impossible) for some businesses to take credit cards. Square made credit card payments possible for all by turning a mobile phone into a credit card reader. Since then Square has been building an entire business toolkit of both hardware and software products including Square Capital, Square Terminal, Square Payroll, and more. We’re working to find new and better ways to help businesses succeed on their own terms—and we’re looking for people like you to help shape tomorrow at Square.

As a software engineer on the Catalog Items Foundation team, you will join a new team that is responsible for scaling the backend infrastructure for our core Items services, which serve as the backbone for multiple teams including Items, Taxes, Discounts, Subscriptions and more.  This is a new team being created to meet the demand of our growing sellers and the scale of their Item Catalogs to levels that simply aren’t possible today. You will utilize modern cloud-based database technologies to improve performance and scale to handle the future needs of our merchants and Square.

You will:

• Build a highly scalable, reliable, and performant platform that can scale to handle the needs of our merchants

• Lead architectural and design discussions, ensuring our platform is performant, fault tolerant, and maintainable

• Provide input to aid in the technical decisions and direction for the team and mentor other engineers

• Design fault tolerant systems so the team can be brave, move fast, and break things, without ever showing a negative impact to customers.

• Be given opportunities to stretch yourself by learning new technologies and working with engineers and other partners

You have:

• Experience building and maintaining highly scalable and performant systems

• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical, working experience (4+ years)

• Technical initiative and a desire to make those around you better

• Experience with incident response, including disaster recovery

• Eagerness to share your own ideas, and openness to those of others.

• Experience implementing Data Storage services at scale with one or more of the following databases: MySQL, DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Elasticsearch

• A knack for creating readable, well-crafted, maintainable code.

Technologies we use:

• Golang

• Elasticsearch

• Protocol Buffers, gRPC

• MySQL

At Square, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Applicants in need of special assistance or accommodation during the interview process or in accessing our website may contact us by sending an email to assistance(at)squareup.com. We will treat your request as confidentially as possible. In your email, please include your name and preferred method of contact, and we will respond as soon as possible.

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

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. Square 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, 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.

Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

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

Square, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) builds tools to empower businesses and individuals to participate in the economy. Sellers use Square to reach buyers online and in person, manage their business, and access financing. Individuals use Cash App to spend, send, store, and invest money. And TIDAL is a global music and entertainment platform that expands Square's purpose of economic empowerment to artists. Square, Inc. has offices in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Ireland, Spain, Norway, and the UK.