Senior Software Engineer Frontend

Squarespace is seeking experienced JavaScript engineers with design experience and a desire to create interfaces that are a pleasure to use.

The Frontend team at Squarespace builds one of the most advanced interfaces on the web. With it our customers can easily create beautiful interactive websites and stores. If you are a Frontend Engineer who strives to push the envelope with what is possible in a web browser we want to hear from you!

This is a hybrid role working from our New York office 3 days per week. You will report to the Product Engineering Manager.

• Design and build new features into the Squarespace interface
• Collaborate with other engineers and designers to deliver strong customer-focused experiences
• Keep our product up to date with the latest frontend technologies such as React and ES2015+
• Practice disciplined software engineering (e.g. automated testing code reviews and writing beautiful pragmatic code)
• Actively contribute to team and company standards

• Proficient in JavaScript
• Have solid knowledge of the DOM HTML and CSS3
• Have experience with Single Page Application development
• Keep up to date with the newest technologies
• Develop features and create fulfilling user experiences
• A strong understanding of and practical experience with web application development
• A sincere commitment to crafting readable and reliable code
• BS or MS in Computer Science or related or equivalent industry experience
• 6+ years of industry experience

• A choice between medical plans with an option for 100% covered premiums
• Fertility and adoption benefits
• Access to supplemental insurance plans for additional coverage
• 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
• 7 Global Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
• Dog-friendly workplace
• Free lunch and snacks
• Private rooftop
• Hack week twice per year

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.

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  https://www.squarespace.com/about/careers.

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.

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What We Do

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. At Squarespace we celebrate creative possibility. With a culture rooted in curiosity Squarespace aims to provide its employees with the support to turn possibility into reality – learning from challenges and celebrating progress. At Squarespace we root for customer and employee success uplifting them with the tools needed to achieve their goals while also applauding what makes them unique and fulfilled. Our customers and employees alike are imaginative with the confidence to put their ideas out into the world and welcoming input and iteration. And our people run towards the next frontier to create our success motivated by the unknown and inspired by “first-ever” opportunities truly embracing a sense of possibility.

Why Work With Us

Squarespace employees are ownership-minded builders tenacious resourceful hands-on humble self-motivated experimental curious resilient inclusive and empathetic.

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