Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Domains

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 NYC office 3 days per week. You will report to the Senior Software Engineering Manager based in NYC.

• 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 domains & email products 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

• 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, relational 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

• A choice between medical plans with an option for 100% covered premiums
• Fertility and adoption benefits
• Access to supplemental insurance plans for additional coverage
• Headspace mindfulness app subscription
• Global Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement benefits with employer match
• Flexible paid time off
• 20 weeks for parental leave and up to 12 weeks to care for an ill family member
• Pretax commuter benefit
• Education reimbursement
• Employee donation match to community organizations
• 8 Global Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
• Dog-friendly workplace
• Free lunch and snacks
• Private rooftop
• Hack week twice per year

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 on-target commissions or overtime pay), Squarespace employees are eligible to be granted an option to purchase our common stock.

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.

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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