Engineering Manager - Operations

  • Full-time
  • Alternate Location: New York, United States

Company Description

It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic app, bringing a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our millions of monthly active users. With a mission to redefine the world's relationship with money by making it more relatable, available and accessible, at Cash App you'll have the opportunity to make a real-world impact with your career.

Today, Cash App has thousands of employees around the world with a culture geared toward creativity, collaboration and impact. We’ve been a distributed team since day one, and continue to value working across time zones and continents both remotely and in our Cash App offices.Our offices are great, but many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Block operates. We tailor our experience to champion our employees’ creativity and productivity wherever they are. 


Check out our locations, benefits and more at cash.app/careers.

Job Description

The Cash Operations Engineering team exists to bridge our product with the business by building the tools and services used to take action when and where it is needed most. We’re looking for an engineering manager who understands the value of knowing a problem, understanding the customer and owning the outcome of their efforts. In this role, you will build and lead a team that will have a huge, direct impact on the company’s vision of changing the world's relationship with money and be pivotal in helping us maintain our incredible growth.


As a member of the Cash engineering team, you’ll collaborate with us to:

  • Practice servant leadership of a team of engineers building tools and services that power internal and external cash products.
  • Build an outstanding team by hiring remarkable talent, coaching your team, fostering pragmatic engineering decision-making, and using your technical expertise to maintain a high bar

  • Participate in essential technical, design, and product discussions with leaders across our product and operations teams 

  • Work with a wide range of stakeholders both inside and outside engineering to build a clear vision for your team

  • Oversee the success of your team's product and achieve quantifiable results on time

  • Build systems, services, and product features across multiple platforms that have immediate impact on customers

  • Introduce industry leading engineering patterns and practices that give us the confidence to dare bold things.

Qualifications

You have:

  • Curiosity and a passion for services, tooling and infrastructure.

  • BA/BS degree or equivalent practical, working experience (5+ years preferred) 

  • 2+ years managing engineering teams 

  • Background in building and scaling products

Technologies we use and teach:

  • Java 11/Kotlin, including JUnit, Hibernate, Guice, and Jersey

  • HTTP, JSON, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers

  • MySQL, Vitess, event sourcing

Additional Information

Cash App treats all employees and job applicants equally. Every decision is based on merit, qualifications, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. 

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with each office’s corresponding local guidelines and applicable regulations.

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. 

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page

Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD54566975, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD54566975 is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.

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