Software Engineering Manager, Recon Team

  • Full-time

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, instantly available and universally 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

Do you love building both software and teams? Do you care about engineering culture? Cash App is looking for a Technical & People Leader to help lead & grow our Treasury team. 

Cash App’s Financial Platform engineering org is building the core set of primitives that provide access to the underlying infrastructure that powers finance around the world.  One of the fundamental functions we provide is Recon, responsible for ensuring the correctness of Cash App’s financial assets, such as bank accounts and wallets.

The Product Reconciliation team is building a next generation event driven data platform, providing near real time financial auditing, verification and reporting on all of Cash App’s products across the globe. Product Reconciliation is an essential part of Cash App’s ecosystem, ensuring that we build trusted relationships with our customers by correctly managing and auditing their money. As a platform team, this role gives you the opportunity to work across the entire Cash App product ecosystem and develop a breadth of expertise around all of Cash App’s financial product offerings.

We strive to build innovative and valuable solutions by growing diverse teams of people who care about what they do. Product Reconciliation is an inclusive and balanced engineering team, with a safe team environment enabling people to ‘just work’.
 

You will:

  • Build a world-class team by hiring exceptional talent, coaching and developing engineers, cultivating pragmatic engineering decision-making, and leveraging your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar.
  • Partner closely with stakeholders across the Product Engineering, Product Management, Finance and Data Science organizations to thoroughly understand your customer’s needs, and help define your team’s vision and roadmap.
  • Lead and participate in critical strategic, technical and operational discussions with leaders across the organization, company and external partners.
  • Foster inclusiveness, trust, work-life balance, ownership, accountability, pragmatism, and decision making in the team.
  • Define your team’s vision and roadmap by thoroughly understanding your customers’ needs in collaboration with product management, business operations, data, and adjacent engineering teams
  • Work within a globally distributed organization, with engineers in the United States, Australia, and across Europe

Qualifications

We value Engineering Managers who: 

  • Have 1+ years experience in leading teams of engineers, in both a technical and people management capacity.
  • Have 6+ years experience working on complex systems and delivering quality software.
  • Lead with a people-first approach, can lead a conversation rather than dictate it, and are empathetic to dissenting viewpoints.
  • Have boundless curiosity, are driven by what they don’t know and thrive in ambiguous environments. Excel at building world class engineering teams that are highly-functional, collaborative and inclusive.
  • Build strong relationships with counterparts, both internally and externally, including finance, business operations and risk operations.

Technologies we use and teach:

  • Java, Kotlin
  • Kafka, Flink
  • Docker, Kubernetes
  • Jaeger, Prometheus, SignalFx
  • JUnit
  • Hibernate, Guice

Additional Information

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, based solely on the core competencies required of the role at hand, and without regard to any 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.

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, 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. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.

Privacy Policy