Risk Engineering works to protect Square and our customers from financial and reputational harm. We build systems to detect and respond to threats, provide controls over the Square platform, and give our sellers seamless experiences to navigate through risk. Our mission is to protect Square and our customers, while making a complicated and sometimes painful process understandable to all.

Risk Engineering is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and successful launch of projects that often span across multiple engineering teams. You will contribute high-quality, impactful technical solutions, removing roadblocks for the team, and apply your expertise to deliver successful outcomes. As an important member of the engineering team, you will lead architectural discussions, provide insightful feedback, and mentor other engineers in both technical and strategic decisions.

Qualifications

You will:

• Take full ownership of projects, including design, implementation, testing, and long-term maintenance
• Foster collaboration and knowledge sharing across teams and non-engineering functions
• Cultivate an inclusive, psychologically safe environment to support team well-being and productivity
• Set the technical direction for the team and represent their systems to stakeholders

You Have:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience 
• Interest in working full-stack across multiple technical domains
• Experience building products end to end through technical design, implementation, testing, launch, and maintenance
• Metrics-oriented mindset: you want your work to be measurable and impactful
• Comfortable working with a globally distributed team of engineers, data scientists, product managers, and risk experts
• Technologies we use and teach: Java, Guice, Amazon Web Services Go, Ruby on Rails, Ember, React, GraphQL, Protocol Buffers, MySQL, Hibernate, jOOQ
• Have prior experience as a people manager, or the desire to build management experience, is a bonus