Staff Software Engineer, Revenue Systems

Squarespace is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical oversight and evolve the systems at the core of its monetization platform, including billing, payments, and orders. The role owns architecture for high-visibility initiatives and collaborates with engineering leadership and product, strategy, and finance stakeholders to align technical strategy with business objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Own system architectural vision and design for critical areas of our business
• Transform high-level system vision into estimated project plans for initiatives central to Squarespace’s strategy
• Serve as technical lead and cross-functional liaison on business-critical projects, making and defending engineering decisions key to the success of the business
• Mentor engineers on the team to deliver ever greater quality with ever growing autonomy
• Drive best practices for engineering excellence and technical leadership, influence design reviews, question assumptions, point out pitfalls and foster shared understanding
• Set the engineering quality bar for the team through regular, high-quality code contributions across billing, orders and payments

Requirements:

• 10 or more years experience specifying, delivering and maintaining complex distributed backend services
• Significant experience with multiple programming languages (especially Java) and a broad range of tools like Springboot, hibernate, databases, etc
• Demonstrated experience leading system architecture decisions across multiple teams or initiatives
• Proven ability to serve as a technical lead on cross-functional projects, aligning engineering and business goals without sacrificing engineering quality
• Experience working with billing, orders or payment systems at scale