Staff Software Engineer - Backend, Domains

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Aveiro
Hybrid
Senior level
Consumer Web • eCommerce • Marketing Tech • Payments • Software • Design • SEO
We build products that help entrepreneurs stand out and succeed.
The Role
Lead technical strategy and architecture for backend domains team, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and contribute code to complex projects.
Summary Generated by Built In

Squarespace is looking for a Backend Staff Software Engineer for the Domains group to partner with our product and engineering teams.

Our group’s products offer customers the tools to establish the foundation of their digital presence namely their domain and corresponding email. The teams are currently focused on building new features to allow customers to do more with their domains to further our goal of being one of the top domain providers in the business.  

In this role, you will lead technical strategy, architecture, and implementation while mentoring engineers, collaborating across teams, and contributing code to complex projects that align technical investments with business priorities. 

This is a hybrid role working from our Aveiro office 3 days per week. You will report to the Senior Software Engineering Manager based in NYC.

You'll Get To…

  • Be the architect for a major area of our business
  • Influence: Drive best practices for engineering excellence and technical leadership, influence design reviews, question assumptions, point out pitfalls and foster shared understanding
  • Guide: Provide guidance to the engineering team to help architect solutions at scale and become the goto whiteboard partner for the team.
  • Mentor: Multiply your effectiveness through influence by growing our experienced team of Software Engineers of several levels.
  • Plan: Tie technical investments to business priorities, lead architecture discussions and design reviews, and contribute to product roadmap planning
  • Collaborate: Work with engineering teams across the company
  • Write: Create medium to long term technical strategies for our online store product and platform. Clearly and concisely write that strategy and collaborate with engineers across the organization to implement the strategy
  • Code: Wants to contribute directly to projects that require more senior technical expertise or to quickly address ambiguous engineering challenges across the organization

Who We're Looking For

  • Have 8+ years of building large-scale software and highly available and reliable distributed systems
  • Have experience building and implementing long-term technical strategy
  • Want to expand your technical influence and effect across teams while still being a hands-on individual contributor
  • Ability to create effective designs to solve complex problems and lead teams to implement them
  • Enjoy exploring the intersection between product and engineering
  • Significant experience using multiple programming languages (especially Java)  and a broad range of tools like Springboot, hibernate, databases, etc.
  • Effective communication skills with ability to give impactful feedback to colleagues
  • Hands-on approach and pragmatic attitude in turning ideas into working software

Benefits & Perks

  • Health insurance with 100% covered premiums for you and your dependent children
  • Pension benefits with employer match
  • Fertility and adoption benefits
  • Headspace mindfulness app subscription
  • Global Employee Assistance Program
  • Statutory paid time off and all statutory leaves, as required
  • Meal Allowance and Flex Benefits Account
  • Employee donation match to community organisations
  • Free snacks
  • In the easily accessible city centre of Aveiro
  • 6 Global Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

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 1,500 is headquartered in bustling New York City, with offices in Dublin, Ireland, Aveiro, Portugal, and coworking spaces in the UK, Netherlands, and Australia. For more information about our company culture, 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 customer base, but we also strive for 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.

Thank you in advance for providing the following details about your work history from your resume! This helps us ensure that your candidate information is accurate and consistent during the hiring process.

 

Squarespace will never solicit your personal banking information or ask you to transfer money in connection with a job offer or interview. We also will not reach out to you via phone or SMS without your permission or knowledge.

Top Skills

Databases
Hibernate
Java
Spring Boot

What the Team is Saying

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Software Engineering Director
“I get to meet and work with people across a much wider set of products and functions. I’m continuously meeting people from different departments. It’s a very cross-collaborative environment. I’m also able to leverage the experience I’ve gained in my career to much greater effect.“
Alex
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
1,723 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2003

What We Do

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.

At Squarespace, we celebrate creative possibility. With a culture rooted in curiosity, Squarespace aims to provide its employees with the support to turn possibility into reality – learning from challenges and celebrating progress. At Squarespace we root for customer and employee success, uplifting them with the tools needed to achieve their goals, while also applauding what makes them unique and fulfilled. Our customers and employees alike are imaginative, with the confidence to put their ideas out into the world and welcoming input and iteration. And our people run towards the next frontier to create our success, motivated by the unknown and inspired by “first-ever” opportunities, truly embracing a sense of possibility.

Why Work With Us

Squarespace employees are ownership-minded, builders, tenacious, resourceful, hands-on, humble, self-motivated, experimental, curious, resilient, inclusive, and empathetic.

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