Software Engineering Manager, Checkout & Payments
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 185500 - 299000
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Squarespace is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Checkout & Payments team - the group that enables customers around the world to seamlessly complete their purchases using their preferred payment methods. This team is responsible for the checkout experience and operates the services that power both real-time and recurring payment processing across Squarespace.
As the manager for this team youll guide a group of experienced frontend and backend engineers who integrate with global payment gateways maintain our payment infrastructure and ensure the reliability and scalability of systems that drive all payments for Squarespaces customers. Youll work closely with product design and finance partners to deliver seamless secure and performant checkout and payment experiences for our customers.
This is a hybrid role working from our NYC office 3 days per week. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager of Revenue Systems.
Youll Get To
- Lead a full-stack engineering team responsible for billing address collection payment information and payment processing (on-session and asynchronous).
- Drive the evolution of our payment gateway integrations (e.g. Stripe PayPal) and internal payment services.
- Coach mentor and develop engineers through regular feedback goal-setting and technical guidance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to align engineering initiatives with product and business priorities.
- Foster a culture of technical excellence reliability and continuous improvement in critical revenue systems.
- Participate in incident command rotations and guide the teams response to high-impact production events.
Who Were Looking For
- 3 years experience managing software engineering teams building production systems.
- Experience leading or partnering across both frontend (React/TypeScript) and backend (Java PostgreSQL distributed systems) domains.
- Familiarity with payment processing gateway integrations or transactional system design.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with a focus on alignment and delivery.
- Passion for mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of growth inclusion and accountability.
Benefits & Perks
- A choice between medical plans with an option for 100% covered premiums including medical dental and vision
- Supplemental Life and Disability Insurance plans
- Fertility and adoption benefits
- Headspace mindfulness app subscription
- Global Employee Assistance Program
- Retirement benefits with employer match
- Flexible paid time off
- 12 weeks paid parental leave and family care leave
- Pretax commuter benefit
- Education reimbursement
- Employee donation match to community organizations
- 8 Global Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
- Dog-friendly workplace
- Free lunch and snacks
- Private rooftop
- Hack week twice per year
Cash Compensation Range: $185500 - $299000 USD
The base salary for this position will vary based on job-related criteria including relevant skills experience and location among other factors.
In addition to the cash compensation above (which includes base salary and where applicable for eligible roles may include overtime pay) Squarespace employees are eligible to be granted an option to purchase our common stock. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive structure in addition to base salary.
About Squarespace
Squarespace is a design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online. We empower millions of customers in more than 200 countries and territories with all the tools they need to create an online presence build an audience monetize and scale their business. Our suite of products range from websites domains ecommerce and marketing tools as well as tools for scheduling with Acuity and creating and managing social media presence with Bio Sites and Unfold. Our team of more than 1500 is headquartered in bustling New York City with offices in Dublin Ireland Aveiro Portugal and coworking spaces in the UK Netherlands and Australia. For more information about our company culture visit Commitment Today more than a million people around the globe use Squarespace to share different perspectives and experiences with the world. Not only do we embrace and celebrate the diversity of our customers but we also work toward the same in our employees. At Squarespace we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race color ethnicity ancestry religion national origin gender sex gender identity or expression sexual orientation age citizenship marital or parental status disability veteran status or other class protected by applicable law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. #LI-Hybrid 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. Squarespace will never solicit your personal banking information or ask you to transfer money in connection with a job offer or interview. We also will not reach out to you via phone or SMS without your permission or knowledge.
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
About Company
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