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Job Description
Square recently consolidated all members of our web front-end engineering discipline into a centralized organization, specifically to elevate our velocity and quality. Our high-level objectives include deprecating older JavaScript frameworks and standardizing on React, which will include a substantial migration effort. This is a transformational time to join our team as a Principal Engineer, to help establish the blueprint for modern and high velocity front-end development at scale, improving hundreds of engineers across the company!
As a Principal Front-end Software Engineer on the Web team, you will:
Share ownership in Square’s Dashboard web application - a surface used by millions of Square sellers to manage their businesses - ensuring we are proud to sign our names to the experiences we enable there
Work with other senior front-end engineers to establish and evangelize best practices and patterns with React
Prioritize and advocate for tooling and build investments to add leverage for every front-end engineer
Actively participate in reviewing technical documents and roadmaps to advocate for the right architectural tradeoffs
Advocate for process improvements within the team/organization in a critical, but thoughtful and empathetic way
Mentor engineers across the organization, evolving and instilling a culture of high quality and high velocity work