Staff Software Engineer, Domains

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 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 Engineering Director based in Portugal.

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 go-to whiteboard partner for the team.

Mentor: Multiply your effectiveness through influence by growing our experienced team of Software Engineers at 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 experience 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

Effective communication skills with the 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, your spouse or partner, and dependent children, including medical, dental, and vision

Life and Disability Insurance

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

In the easily accessible city centre of Aveiro

7 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 1,700 is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Dublin, Ireland, and Aveiro, Portugal. For more information about our company, visit https://www.squarespace.com/about/careers .

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