# Senior Software Engineer - Java (Media Platform) at Squarespace

- Company: Squarespace
- What the company does: Create a website and grow your business with a free Squarespace trial. Start with customizable website templates, AI website builder tools, or a domain name. Backed by Accel and Index.
- Company website: http://www.squarespace.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York City
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $129K to $207K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2024-10-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: http://www.squarespace.com/about/careers?gh_jid=6305471
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/squarespace-senior-software-engineer-java-media-platform/

## 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

Tags: Engineering