Skill Compatibility Diagnostics
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About the Role
Squarespace is looking for a 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 hybrid role working from our Aveiro office 3 days per week, 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. You will report to the Senior Engineering Director based in Portugal.
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 team of more than 1,700 is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Dublin, Ireland, and Aveiro, Portugal.
Key Technical Responsibilities
- check_circle Be the architect for a major area of our business
- check_circle Drive best practices for engineering excellence and technical leadership, influence design reviews, question assumptions, point out pitfalls and foster shared understanding
- check_circle Provide guidance to the engineering team to help architect solutions at scale and become the go-to whiteboard partner for the team
- check_circle Multiply your effectiveness through influence by growing our experienced team of Software Engineers at several levels
- check_circle Tie technical investments to business priorities, lead architecture discussions and design reviews, and contribute to product roadmap planning
- check_circle Work with engineering teams across the company
- check_circle Create medium to long-term technical strategies for our online store product and platform, clearly and concisely writing that strategy and collaborating with engineers across the organization to implement it
- check_circle Contribute directly to projects that require more senior technical expertise or to quickly address ambiguous engineering challenges across the organization
Prerequisites & Qualifications
- check 10+ years of experience building large-scale software and highly available and reliable distributed systems
- check Experience building and implementing long-term technical strategy
- check Desire to expand your technical influence and effect across teams while still being a hands-on individual contributor
- check Ability to create effective designs to solve complex problems and lead teams to implement them
- check Enjoy exploring the intersection between product and engineering
- check Effective communication skills with the ability to give impactful feedback to colleagues
- check Hands-on approach and pragmatic attitude in turning ideas into working software
About Squarespace Greenhouse Board
Verified hiring organization details.
Squarespace Greenhouse Board refers to the centralized recruitment and talent acquisition infrastructure utilized by Squarespace, a New York City-based technology company specializing in website building and hosting platforms. The board serves as the primary interface for managing the company's global hiring pipeline, candidate tracking, and talent operations, facilitating the recruitment of engineering, product, and design talent to support the company's integrated suite of web publishing tools and e-commerce solutions.