Senior Android Engineer

  • Full-time
  • Alternate Location: Boston, 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

The Restaurants team at Square is reimagining the hospitality industry to empower today's restaurants with simple, elegant software and efficient workflows.  We admire the people working in the highly-competitive food and drink business and we want to help them succeed.

Restaurants today operate in an increasingly dynamic landscape, and we're building a modern product ecosystem to support this.  Our products leverage innovative technology to unlock new workflows, revenue streams, and means of communication.  In everything we build, we focus on efficiency, automation, and reliability: themes of paramount importance in a fast-paced environment where great hospitality is key.

As an Android engineer on the Restaurants team, you’ll work closely with other engineers as well as your designer and product manager to develop beautiful software on our own custom hardware.  You’ll also be joining Square’s vibrant global community of Android engineers, with a robust open source presence and culture of learning and teaching.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

You will:

  • Design and build robust, scalable client software 

  • Lead complex cross-functional initiatives, often across team boundaries

  • Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers

  • Mentor and learn from other engineers

  • Participate in the full lifecycle of product development, from early definition through release and beyond

  • Bring industry-advancing technology to restaurant owners internationally!

Qualifications

What you bring to the team and to Square:

  • Motivation to build beautiful, intuitive products for the food and drink hospitality industry

  • 4+ years of professional Android experience

  • Ability to mentor other engineers and help teams level up

  • Empathy for your customers and colleagues

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

  • Experience shipping and maintaining Android apps

Technologies we use:

  • Kotlin for development, leveraging Square’s modern open source library, Workflow

  • Espresso and Snapshot for testing

  • Protocol buffers for network transport

  • Gradle for our build environment

  • Also exposure to LeakCanary, RXJava, Dagger, Mortar, and Okhttp among others

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, 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, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

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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