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About the role
In this role, you will lead technical strategy, architecture, and implementation while mentoring engineers, collaborating across teams, and contributing code to complex projects that align technical investments with business priorities. This is a hybrid role working from our Aveiro office 3 days per week. You will report to the Senior Engineering Director based in Portugal.
What they're looking for
- Have 10+ years of experience building large-scale software and highly available and reliable distributed systems
- Have experience building and implementing long-term technical strategy
- Want to expand your technical influence and effect across teams while still being a hands-on individual contributor
- Ability to create effective designs to solve complex problems and lead teams to implement them
- Enjoy exploring the intersection between product and engineering
- Effective communication skills with the ability to give impactful feedback to colleagues
More about this role
Squarespace is looking for a Staff Software Engineer for the Domains group to partner with our product and engineering teams.
Our group's products offer customers the tools to establish the foundation of their digital presence, namely their domain and corresponding email. The teams are currently focused on building new features to allow customers to do more with their domains to further our goal of being one of the top domain providers in the business.
In this role, you will lead technical strategy, architecture, and implementation while mentoring engineers, collaborating across teams, and contributing code to complex projects that align technical investments with business priorities.
This is a hybrid role working from our Aveiro office 3 days per week. You will report to the Senior Engineering Director based in Portugal.
- Be the architect for a major area of our business
- Influence: Drive best practices for engineering excellence and technical leadership, influence design reviews, question assumptions, point out pitfalls and foster shared understanding
- Guide: Provide guidance to the engineering team to help architect solutions at scale and become the go-to whiteboard partner...
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