Job Description

As a leader within the Appointments team, you will be responsible for managing a team of frontend engineers that design, build, and maintain our buyer-facing and merchant-facing Ember applications. Your team will have direct responsibility for launching critical new features that help our merchants, across the world, manage their schedules, payments, employees and customers. As a member of the Appointments leadership bench you will also advocate for making continuous investments in developer productivity and code quality along with timely feature delivery. We build incrementally with small changes, deploying these to production almost daily.  We focus on delivering a carefully designed experience that is fast and secure, to millions of small business owners, including their tens of millions of clients. 

You will:

• Manage a world-class team of experienced and passionate frontend engineers.
• Grow the team by hiring exceptional talent, coaching and developing engineers, cultivating pragmatic engineering decision-making, and leveraging your technical & managerial expertise to constantly raise the bar.
• Set the technical vision & direction for the team and lead the team to achieve it.
• Form excellent working relationships with your counterparts in design, product, marketing, external QA vendors as well as other engineering and business teams across Square.
• Plan, organize, schedule & document team’s work to ensure successful project execution.
• Participate in essential technical, design, and product discussions with teams across the organization.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical, working experience (6+ years preferred)
• At least 2 years experience managing and mentoring engineers (including providing feedback, investing in the career growth of your team members and growing teams).
• A knack for creating readable, well-crafted, maintainable code.
• An eye for design and an ear for the customer.
• Passion for building remarkable experiences in front-end applications.
• Eagerness to share your own ideas, and openness to those of others.

Technologies we use and teach:

• Javascript, ES6, Ember, Sass, and other web-app frameworks
• Testing frameworks like (QUnit, Mocha, Jasmine, etc.)

Additional Information At Square, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Applicants in need of special assistance or accommodation during the interview process or in accessing our website may contact us by sending an email to assistance(at)squareup.com. We will treat your request as confidentially as possible. In your email, please include your name and preferred method of contact, and we will respond as soon as possible. PERKS At Square, 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