# Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Communications 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: $186K to $299K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: http://www.squarespace.com/about/careers?gh_jid=8159839
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/squarespace-staff-software-engineer-backend-communications-platform/

## About the role

In this role, you’ll serve as the senior technical voice for the team — driving architecture, shaping roadmap execution, and elevating the engineering quality of a small but high-impact team. This is a hands-on role with real technical depth, paired with broad cross-functional influence. Thank you in advance for providing the following details about your work history from your resume! This helps us ensure that your candidate information is accurate and consistent during the hiring process.

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years of backend engineering experience, with significant time building and operating large-scale, customer-facing systems
- Deep expertise in Java and backend service development, including APIs, async processing, messaging systems (ex: Kafka), and data stores (ex: MongoDB, CockroachDB)
- Strong experience with distributed systems in production — including reliability, scaling, failure modes, and observability
- A proven track record of technical leadership at the Staff or Senior-plus level, influencing architecture across multiple teams or services
- Experience evolving existing systems — modernizing legacy platforms, simplifying complexity, and strengthening reliability without unnecessary rewrites
- Experience operating within platform engineering contexts, where your customers are internal or external product teams and the quality of your APIs and abstractions directly shapes their velocity

Tags: Engineering