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Senior Software Engineer - Java (Media Platform)

Squarespace · New York City · On-site

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About the role

Squarespace is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Media Platform team within the Platform Engineering group. The Media Platform team provides Squarespace engineers with a scalable, reliable, secure, and flexible platform for uploading, processing, managing, and serving media assets like images, video, and audio. You will report to the Engineering Team Manager of the Media Platforms team in our NYC office. This is a hybrid opportunity with three days in the office per week.

What they're looking for

  • 6+ years of experience developing backend systems with Java and Spring in cloud environments (e.g. GCP) and microservices architecture
  • An understanding of, and practical experience with, web application development. Strong in RESTful API development
  • Collaboration with stakeholders and engineers to come up with the best solutions for the problems at hand
  • Comfortable challenging established workflows with AI tools. Quick to adopt what works, and rigorous about customer data and safety while doing it
  • Experience developing large-scale, fault tolerant, distributed systems. Familiarity with the behaviors of different transaction control and consistency models
  • Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases such as CockroachDB, MongoDB
More about this role

Squarespace is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Media Platform team within the Platform Engineering group. The Media Platform team provides Squarespace engineers with a scalable, reliable, secure, and flexible platform for uploading, processing, managing, and serving media assets like images, video, and audio.

You will report to the Engineering Team Manager of the Media Platforms team in our NYC office. This is a hybrid opportunity with three days in the office per week.

  • Design systems and components within the Media Platform
  • Own complex projects end-to-end
  • Explore new technologies that are at the forefront of image, audio and video technologies – processing, compressing, storage, streaming, serving, etc.
  • Ensure the availability and reliability of systems essential to Squarespace users and businesses powered by Squarespace
  • Effectively collaborate and integrate with upstream and downstream teams
  • Contribute to design discussions and collaborate with engineering teams across the company to enhance platform solutions
  • Integrate with LLMs and GenAI technologies
  • Be a technical leader and mentor within the team
  • Participate in the team production on-call...

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