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Staff Software Engineer, Revenue Systems

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New York City, NY, USA
186K-299K Annually
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New York City, NY, USA
186K-299K Annually
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Staff Software Engineer responsible for architecting and evolving billing, payment, and order systems supporting Squarespace’s monetization platform. The role provides technical leadership across high-visibility initiatives, translates system vision into project plans, leads cross-functional engineering efforts, mentors engineers, drives engineering best practices, and contributes code to critical backend services. Candidates need extensive experience with complex distributed systems, Java and related technologies, architecture decisions, and large-scale billing, ordering, or payment platforms.
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Squarespace is seeking a talented Staff Software Engineer to support and evolve the systems at the core core of our monetization platform: billing, payments and orders. In this role, you will provide technical oversight over the critical monetization machinery that accepts orders, processes payments and bills subscriptions. You will regularly collaborate with engineering leadership and key product, strategy and finance stakeholders to align technical strategy with Squarespace’s business objectives. This is an opportunity to take on IC technical leadership responsibilities and own system architecture for high-visibility initiatives tied directly to Squarespace's core businesses.

This is a hybrid role working from our NYC office 3 days per week. You will report to the Director of Revenue Systems.

You'll Get To...
  • 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.
Who We're Looking For
  • 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
Benefits & Perks
  • A choice between medical plans with an option for 100% covered premiums including medical, dental, and vision
  • Supplemental Life and Disability Insurance plans
  • Fertility and adoption benefits
  • Headspace mindfulness app subscription
  • Global Employee Assistance Program
  • Retirement benefits with employer match
  • Flexible paid time off
  • 12 weeks paid parental leave and family care leave
  • Pretax commuter benefit
  • Education reimbursement
  • Employee donation match to community organizations
  • 7 Global Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
  • Dog-friendly workplace
  • Free lunch and snacks
  • Private rooftop
  • Hack week twice per year
Cash Compensation Range: $185,500 - $299,000 USD

The base salary for this position will vary based on job-related criteria including relevant skills, experience, and location, among other factors.

In addition to the cash compensation above (which includes base salary and, where applicable for eligible roles, may include overtime pay), Squarespace employees are eligible to be granted an option to purchase our common stock. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive structure in addition to base salary.

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 1,700 is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Dublin, Ireland, and Aveiro, Portugal. For more information about our company, 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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