Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Online Stores

Squarespace•New York, NY

4h•Hybrid

About The Position

Squarespace is looking for a Backend Staff Software Engineer for the Online Stores organization to partner with our product and engineering teams. Our Online Stores Engineering team enables our merchants to create and grow standout ecommerce brands and businesses. We develop the services, products, and frameworks essential for delivering the best selling experience to all Squarespace customers inclusive of donations platforms, digital products sellers, physical goods sellers, and service products sellers. In this role, you will lead technical strategy, architecture, and implementation while mentoring engineers, collaborating across teams, and contributing code to complex projects that align technical investments with business priorities. This is a hybrid role working from our NYC office 3 days per week. You will report to the Senior Software Engineering Manager based in NYC.

Requirements

Have 8+ years of experience developing web-based production systems with at least 8+ years of building large-scale software and distributed systems
Strong understanding of, and experience with, web & mobile application development
Have experience building and implementing long-term technical strategy
Want to expand your technical influence and effect across teams while still being a hands-on individual contributor
Ability to create effective designs to solve complex problems and lead teams to implement them
Enjoy exploring the intersection between product and engineering
Keep a user-first perspective while building your products
Significant experience using multiple programming languages (especially Java) and a broad range of tools
Effective communication skills with ability to give impactful feedback to colleagues
Hands-on approach and pragmatic attitude in turning ideas into working software

Responsibilities

Be the architect for a major area of our business. Hands-on detangling large-scale and deep problems, while simultaneously influencing architecture ongoing features and investments.
Influence: Drive best practices for engineering excellence and technical leadership, influence design reviews, question assumptions, point out pitfalls and foster shared understanding
Guide: Provide guidance to the engineering team to help architect solutions at scale and become the goto whiteboard partner for the team.
Mentor: Multiply your effectiveness through influence by growing our experienced team of Software Engineers of several levels.
Plan: Tie technical investments to business priorities, lead architecture discussions and design reviews, and contribute to product roadmap planning
Collaborate: Work with engineering teams across the company
Write: Create medium to long term technical strategies for our online store product and platform. Clearly and concisely write that strategy and collaborate with engineers across the organization to implement the strategy
Code: Wants to contribute directly to projects that require more senior technical expertise or to quickly address ambiguous engineering challenges across the organization

Benefits

A choice between medical plans with an option for 100% covered premiums including medical, dental, and vision
Supplemental Life and Disability Insurance plans
Fertility and adoption benefits
Headspace mindfulness app subscription
Global Employee Assistance Program
Retirement benefits with employer match
Flexible paid time off
12 weeks paid parental leave and family care leave
Pretax commuter benefit
Education reimbursement
Employee donation match to community organizations
7 Global Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
Dog-friendly workplace
Free lunch and snacks
Private rooftop
Hack week twice per year