Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Communications Platform)
SquarespaceBase Salary
$186k - $299k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive architecture, design, and implementation for email delivery, in-product notifications, and push notification platforms.
- Own technical strategy for platform modernization, reliability hardening, and backend engineering standards.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentorship to backend and frontend engineers.
- Write high-quality Java and lead design reviews, code reviews, and architectural decisions.
- Identify and address systemic risks involving performance, reliability, security, and operability.
- Partner on cross-team and company-wide architecture initiatives.
- Balance short-term delivery with long-term platform health and communicate technical tradeoffs to stakeholders and leadership.
Requirements
- 10+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating large-scale, customer-facing systems.
- Deep expertise in Java, backend services, APIs, asynchronous processing, messaging systems, and data stores.
- Strong production experience with distributed systems, reliability, scaling, failure modes, and observability.
- Proven Staff or Senior-plus technical leadership experience influencing architecture across multiple teams or services.
- Experience modernizing legacy platforms, simplifying complexity, and improving reliability without unnecessary rewrites.
- Experience in platform engineering contexts serving internal or external product teams.
- Understanding of multi-channel communication infrastructure is a meaningful plus.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical partners.
- Commitment to mentorship, collaboration, and inclusive technical leadership.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement based in the NYC office, with three days per week onsite.
- Choice of medical plans, including an option for fully covered premiums.
- Fertility, adoption, supplemental insurance, retirement matching, flexible paid time off, and paid parental and family care leave.
- Headspace subscription, Global Employee Assistance Program, pretax commuter benefit, and education reimbursement.
- Employee donation matching, employee resource groups, dog-friendly workplace, free lunch and snacks, private rooftop, and twice-yearly hack week.
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About Squarespace
Squarespace is a design-driven platform that gives entrepreneurs the tools to establish a powerful online presence on their own terms. For over 20 years, we've helped millions across more than 200 countries and territories build, grow, and run their businesses online. Our integrated, AI-powered suite of products includes websites, domains, ecommerce, payments, marketing tools, and appointment scheduling through Acuity. Every product is built with the same belief — that how you show up online matters. For more information, visit www.squarespace.com. If you are a customer that needs help, we invite you to browse the extensive collection of guides in our Help Center: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us. For more personalized support, you can email our award-winning Customer Support team anytime or live chat here: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/p/contact. Please remember Squarespace will never solicit your personal banking information or ask you to transfer money in connection with a job offer or interview. We also won’t reach out to you directly via phone or SMS without your permission or knowledge. For information about how to apply for our open roles, visit our Careers page at https://www.squarespace.com/about/careers. If you’ve received a suspicious communication about a potential career opportunity with us, please report it here https://www.squarespace.com/hr-inquiries. To report a possible scam on LinkedIn, please head to: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TS-RPS