Job Description

Square recently consolidated some of its backend team across different business verticals under one centralized Product Server organization. The Product Server organization is a 300+ engineering team owning 150+ backend services in different technical stacks (Go, Java, Kotlin, Ruby, PHP). This is a transformational time to join our team as a Principal Software Engineer reporting into Product Server Lead to help establish the blueprint for building long term technical strategy, operation principles and engineering excellence culture impacting hundreds of engineers across the company!

As a Principal Software Engineer for Product Server organization, you will: 

Help craft and drive long term technical strategy across different business verticals in Product Server to standardize and ensure operational excellence and efficiency of key production servicesWork with other senior engineers to set technical standards, make strategic technology choices and provide technical leadership on high impact projectsInfluence and coach a distributed team of engineers across the organization, evolving and instilling a culture of high quality and high velocity workFacilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines working across several engineering disciplines and leaders at Square.As needed, lead by example and dive into hands-on execution to solve for critical incidents and projects.Work with your peers to influence Engineering across all of Square and Block