# Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Communications Platform)

Squarespace is looking for a Backend Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical direction of our Communications Platform team. The Communications Platform is a critical engine powering customer engagement across Squarespace - providing internal teams with a scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure for delivering communications via email, push notifications and in-product messaging. The team owns multiple interconnected production platforms that collectively send over 1.75+ million notifications per day, strategic initiatives including platform modernization, In-Product Placements, and multi-channel communication capabilities. 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. This is a hybrid role based in our NYC office (3 days per week), reporting to the Engineering Manager of Communications Platform. You’ll Get To… Drive the architecture, design, and implementation of the Communications Platform’s platforms - including Email Delivery, In

- **Id**: 584373
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/squarespace-staff-software-engineer-backend-communications-platform>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-26T16:49:47Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-15
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T03:25:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 73
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6569
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Domain Registrars & Registries, E-commerce Platforms, Website Builders

## Company

- **Id**: 63
- **Name**: Squarespace
- **Domain**: squarespace.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/squarespace>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.5
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 49
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 185500
- **Max**: 299000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 299000

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **CockroachDB** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 73

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-10T01:46:28Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 20 · green card filings: 6; Filings 12m: 20

## Liveness

- **Score**: 32
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.721
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 72
- **Expected fill days**: 49
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 299000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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