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.

As a software engineer on the Catalog Inventory team, your team has direct responsibility for launching and maintaining critical features that help all Square merchants manage their inventory and make more informed decisions for their business. In addition to seller-facing features, your team is responsible for the Catalog API, used by thousands of developers building key integrations.  You will utilize modern cloud-based database technologies to improve performance and scale to handle the future needs of our merchants and Square.

We work closely with product, design and marketing to ensure we’re always taking a holistic approach to how best serve our merchants. As a growing team we like to move quickly, and expect engineers to have a large impact on the road-map, product and technology.

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:

• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical, working experience (6+ years)

• Experience building and maintaining highly scalable and performant distributed systems

• 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.

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. 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.

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. 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 TBD54566975, 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. TBD54566975 is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.