Staff Software Engineer - Backend, Online Stores

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, digital products, physical goods, and invoices.

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 our priorities.

This is a hybrid role working from our Dublin office 3 days per week. You will report to the Senior Software Engineering Manager based in NYC.

You'll Get To…

• Be the architect for a major area of our business
• Influence: Promote 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 go-to 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 our 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, 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

Who We're Looking For

• Have 10+ years of experience developing web-based production systems with at least 8+ years of building large-scale software and distributed systems
• 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 architect designs to 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
• Experience using multiple programming languages (especially Java)  and a broad range of tools
• Experience providing impactful feedback to colleagues
• Hands-on approach in turning ideas into working software

Benefits & Perks

• Health insurance with 100% covered premiums for you and your dependent children
• Fertility and adoption benefits
• Headspace mindfulness app subscription
• Global Employee Assistance Program
• Pension benefits with employer match
• Flexible paid time off
• Up to 26 weeks of full pay for birth parent leave and up to 20 weeks of full pay for non-birth parent leave
• 12 weeks of pay to care for an ill family member 
• Education reimbursement
• Employee donation match to community organizations
• 6 Global Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
• Free lunch and snacks
• Close proximity to cultural landmarks such as Dublin Castle and St. Patrick's Cathedral

About Squarespace

Squarespace is a design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online. We empower millions of customers in more than 200 countries and territories with all the tools they need to create an online presence, build an audience, monetize, and scale their business. Our suite of products range from websites, domains, ecommerce, and marketing tools, as well as tools for scheduling with Acuity and creating and managing social media presence with Bio Sites and Unfold. Our team of more than 1,500 is headquartered in bustling New York City, with offices in Dublin, Ireland, Aveiro, Portugal, and coworking spaces in the UK, Netherlands, and Australia. For more information about our company culture, visit https://www.squarespace.com/about/careers.

Our Commitment

Today, more than a million people around the globe use Squarespace to share different perspectives and experiences with the world. Not only do we embrace and celebrate the diversity of our customer base, but we also strive for the same in our employees. At Squarespace, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

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