Staff iOS Engineer, Neighborhoods

The Role

Lauded for enabling anyone to take payments and now expanding into software, Square aims to empower sellers with integrated, omnichannel solutions. Launched in October 2025, Neighborhoods connects local businesses with online ordering capabilities via Cash App and Square Point of Sale. As a staff iOS engineer on the Neighborhoods team, you'll play a pivotal role in bringing this vision to life.

Responsibilities

• Guide the technical direction for Neighborhoods mobile experiences across Cash App and Square
• Lead strategic, cross-organizational mobile workstreams within a company-level initiative to redefine local commerce and connect the Square and Cash App ecosystems
• Drive cross-organizational architecture and execution with teams across Square and Cash App to deliver seamless integration of Neighborhoods loyalty, marketing, and ordering features in Cash App running on Square’s platform
• Stay hands-on in iOS development using SwiftUI, Workflow, and related technologies across the Square Point of Sale and Cash App codebases, making architectural tradeoffs that keep mobile experiences reliable, scalable, and polished
• Partner with backend, web, and Android engineers to ship features with a focus on quality and craft, while mentoring engineers and raising technical standards across the team and partner teams
• Work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and engineering leaders to define product scope, sequence ambiguous cross-team work, and make clear technical and product tradeoffs
• Lead as an AI-native product engineer
• Use AI tools as a native part of feature development: exploring unfamiliar codebases, prototyping product ideas, accelerating implementation, generating tests, improving observability, and tightening documentation
• Identify, teach, and scale practical AI-assisted workflows for product engineering, especially in cross-codebase feature work, migration, debugging, QA, experimentation, and rapid iteration
• Apply strong judgment around AI-generated work: verify behavior, protect customer trust, preserve maintainability, and use AI to raise the team’s technical bar
• Model how a staff engineer uses AI to multiply impact without losing product taste, architectural ownership, or accountability for the systems we ship

Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant experience with iOS engineering design and implementation, including deep Swift and Objective-C experience
• Experience guiding iOS architecture with organizational impact, including unidirectional data flow, declarative UI frameworks, and scalable mobile patterns
• Proven ability to drive collaboration across team, organizational, and discipline boundaries to deliver remarkable solutions to customers
• Track record shaping organizational technical direction, rallying teams around long-term architecture and product strategy, and mentoring engineers to expand their scope and impact
• Technologies We Use and Teach: SwiftUI, UIKit, Swift Concurrency, Combine, Protocol Buffers, Bazel for our build environment, AI tools including Cursor, Claude Code, Goose

Pay & Benefits

Pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

To find a location’s zone designation, please refer to this resource. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information.

• Zone A: $263,600 USD - $395,400 USD
• Zone B: $263,600 USD - $395,400 USD
• Zone C: $263,600 USD - $395,400 USD
• Zone D: $263,600 USD - $395,400 USD