Senior Android Engineering Manager, Kitchen Display System

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Since we opened our doors in 2009, Square has evolved from a payment platform into a suite of software solutions that help merchants grow. We now empower sellers with integrated, omnichannel tools, including financial services, online sales, inventory, and staffing.

The Kitchen Display System (KDS) team is part of Square's Food & Beverage organization, which empowers restaurant businesses through advanced workflows, specialized products, and business insights. The KDS team owns our Android kitchen display app, a critical part of a restaurant kitchen’s operations to ensure orders reach the kitchen and are prepared correctly.

We are looking for a leader who can guide a high‑performing Android engineering team, define a product roadmap, and drive the technical strategy in collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineering leaders.

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high‑performing engineering team of 8‑10 Android engineers
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams, including product management, design, and QA, to define and prioritize project requirements and ensure successful project execution.
• Drive the technical strategy and execution of the team, working with and through the engineers on the team.
• Promote software engineering best practices (CI/CD, testing, code reviews, monitoring) within the team.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence and mentor engineers of all experience levels.
• Help contribute to a culture of positivity, psychological safety, and inclusivity within the team.
• Lead incident response for critical issues, including crash analysis and performance debugging.
• Balance technical debt reduction with feature delivery to maintain long‑term system health.

• 3+ years of people‑management experience leading a team of Android engineers.
• Strong Android development background before coming into management.
• Deep expertise in Android development, including Kotlin, Android SDK, and modern Android architecture patterns.
• Track record of leading teams that successfully deliver complex, customer‑facing Android products at scale.
• Experience with Android performance optimization, memory management, and debugging.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills — able to influence both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Experience building and growing engineering teams, managing performance, coaching engineers, and scaling processes.

• Kotlin for Android development, leveraging Square's modern open‑source library, Workflow.
• Espresso and Snapshot for testing.
• Protocol buffers for network transport.
• Gradle for our build environment.
• Exposure to Leak Canary, RxJava, Dagger, Mortar, and OkHttp among others.

Block follows a market‑based pay approach. Pay may vary by location. For U.S. locations, compensation ranges are as follows:
Zone A, B, C, D: $263,600—$395,400 USD
. These ranges may be modified in the future.

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Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology