Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Communications Platform)

You’ll Get To…

• Drive the architecture, design, and implementation of the Communications Platform’s platforms — including Email Delivery, In-Product Notifications and Push Notifications.
• Define and own the technical strategy for platform modernization, reliability hardening, and engineering standards across backend services.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentorship to a team of backend and frontend engineers, helping them grow in system design, decision-making, and ownership.
• Write high-quality Java code and stay close to execution — leading design reviews, code reviews, and architectural decisions that raise the bar across the codebase.
• Proactively identify and address systemic risks in performance, reliability, security, and operability before they become incidents.
• Serve as a key technical partner on cross-team and company-wide architecture initiatives.
• Balance short-term delivery with long-term platform health, communicating tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders and leadership.

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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