Job Description
As a software engineer on the Payments team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the Payments Platform services and infrastructure that moves money for Square. You will be deeply involved in the technical details of building highly available and reliable services, while also working with product teams to enable Square to rapidly build new capabilities for our merchants and buyers all over the world.
YOU WILL:
Build our Payments Platform, used by the rest of the organization and a key strategic asset of Square
Design and implement high-volume, low-latency, distributed transaction processing systems, making thoughtful tradeoffs between consistency and availability when both are not possible
Abstract away the legacy APIs of the financial world into consistent, coherent service APIs for Square’s products to build upon
Build systems that manage customers’ sensitive data and hold Square to the highest standards for security and compliance
Work cross-functionally with our product, business, and finance teams to develop Square’s global payments strategy
Qualifications
Innate curiosity and a desire to be responsible for all aspects of reliably moving billions of dollars in a small, highly focused team
Understanding and curiosity in creating highly available, scalable, low-latency, global systems
Track record of pursuing self directed side projects, research, or open source projects
Interest in changing the payments landscape in the US and globally
Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of software development experience in Java, Go or similar
TECHNOLOGIES WE USE:
Java
Python
Guice, Guava, Protocol Buffers, jOOQ, MySQL
AWS SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB
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