Senior Software Engineer - Java (Media Platform)
Squarespace5 hours ago
Base Salary
$129k - $207k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design systems and components for the Media Platform.
- Own complex projects from inception through completion.
- Build and maintain systems for processing, compressing, storing, streaming, and serving image, video, and audio assets.
- Ensure the availability, reliability, security, and scalability of media platform systems.
- Develop backend systems and RESTful APIs using Java and Spring in cloud and microservices environments.
- Collaborate with upstream, downstream, and cross-company engineering teams and stakeholders.
- Integrate with LLM and GenAI technologies while maintaining customer data and safety standards.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership.
- Participate in the production on-call rotation.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience developing backend systems with Java and Spring in cloud environments and microservices architectures.
- Practical experience with web application development and strong RESTful API development skills.
- Experience building large-scale, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
- Understanding of transaction control and consistency models.
- Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases such as CockroachDB and MongoDB.
- Experience with cloud services and tools for storage, identity and access management, monitoring, analytics, messaging, and databases.
- Google Cloud Platform experience is preferred, with equivalent experience on another cloud platform accepted.
- Experience with media content management involving images, video, and audio, plus familiarity with media standards.
- Experience with CDN technologies and caching architectures.
- Ability to collaborate with stakeholders and engineers, challenge established workflows, adopt effective AI tools, and maintain customer data and safety standards.
Benefits
- Choice of medical plans, including an option for 100% covered premiums.
- Fertility, adoption, supplemental insurance, retirement matching, parental leave, and family caregiving benefits.
- Flexible paid time off, education reimbursement, pretax commuter benefits, and employee donation matching.
- Headspace subscription, Global Employee Assistance Program, employee resource groups, dog-friendly workplace, free lunch and snacks, private rooftop, and twice-yearly hack week.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring three days per week in the NYC office.
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About Squarespace
Squarespace builds a website publishing and commerce platform for entrepreneurs and small businesses, offering templates, domains, online stores, payments, marketing, and scheduling (Acuity) plus tools like Bio Sites and Unfold. It sells subscriptions and related services to customers worldwide. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in New York City, Squarespace is privately held following its acquisition by Permira.