The Squarespace platform is home to over a million creators, artisans and entrepreneurs passionate about what they do and bring to the world. The Marketing Tools group helps customers to connect and engage with their audiences. We provide easy-to-use, powerful-yet-simple tools to curate and segment their users and deliver them relevant, contextual messages. We know they aren’t marketing experts, so we make it as easy as possible through intelligent defaults, beautiful templates, and targeted guidance for them to communicate and grow their businesses. The Automations team is focused on enhancing our trigger-based email offerings, making it even easier to get the right message in front of customers at the right time.
This is a hybrid role working from our Dublin office 3 days per week. You will report to the Engineering Team Manager for the Automations team.
You'll Get To…
- Pioneer: Work in a recently greenfield codebase with the opportunity to establish foundational patterns and conventions.
- Build: Design and implement scalable, reliable systems that power automation features, connecting Squarespace customers to their audiences.
- Optimise: Ensure our systems are performant, fault-tolerant, and efficient while managing large-scale data flows.
- Collaborate: Partner with a group of motivated and enthusiastic engineers to build high-quality software that delights users and scales with their needs.
- Mentor: Provide guidance to engineers, promoting growth, learning, and a culture of innovation and collaboration.
Who We're Looking For
- You have 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering, with a solid foundation in designing and maintaining scalable systems, API development, and database management.
- You are comfortable working with modern backend technologies and frameworks.
- You’ve got experience talking tech with non-technical people, explaining complicated concepts in conversation and through written technical specifications, recognising the importance of understanding across teams and disciplines.
- You’re a vigorous proponent of descriptive automated testing and understand its importance in maintaining code quality and documenting intended functionality.
- You have experience mentoring engineers at different levels.
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 customers, but we also work toward 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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What We Do
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.
At Squarespace, we celebrate creative possibility. With a culture rooted in curiosity, Squarespace aims to provide its employees with the support to turn possibility into reality – learning from challenges and celebrating progress. At Squarespace we root for customer and employee success, uplifting them with the tools needed to achieve their goals, while also applauding what makes them unique and fulfilled. Our customers and employees alike are imaginative, with the confidence to put their ideas out into the world and welcoming input and iteration. And our people run towards the next frontier to create our success, motivated by the unknown and inspired by “first-ever” opportunities, truly embracing a sense of possibility.
Why Work With Us
Squarespace employees are ownership-minded, builders, tenacious, resourceful, hands-on, humble, self-motivated, experimental, curious, resilient, inclusive, and empathetic.
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