Staff Software Engineer - Financial Platform, Cash App

  • 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

Cash App’s Financial Platform team is responsible for building systems that power products built by Cash App. We build deep integrations with underlying financial infrastructures and ensure that our products are able to scale. 

We are hiring Staff Software Engineers in the US & Canada for our Financial Platform teams:

Acquiring: The Acquiring team builds & maintains the systems that handle card payments, enabling funds flows both to and from cards issued around the world. In close collaboration with our business ops team, we use a deep knowledge of the payments industry and a focus on data to connect with the right networks and to intelligently route and code payments, optimizing for cost, success rate, and worldwide coverage.

Treasury: The Treasury team is responsible for ledgering of all our customers' stored value transactions and the settlement of funds with our external banking partners. The Treasury team works closely with product teams to ensure funds flows of new and existing products are supported. Additionally, the team is responsible for scaling these capabilities to support the growth of global expansion.

Issuing: This Issuing team handles the issuing of financial instruments (physical cards, virtual card, bank accounts) so people can transaction on a stable, resilient system. We are not a product team, we are building something which will optimize and scale, while being robust and resilient.

You will:

  • Design, build and support the core systems used to power all transactions on Cash App
  • Break existing monoliths into event-driven microservices 
  • Creatively solve challenging technical problems at scale
  • Partner closely with product managers, data scientists, product engineers, and business leads to define our roadmap 
  • Have autonomy to research and achieve outcomes with support when you need it
  • Contributing to the growth of our development capabilities through leading, mentoring and supporting fellow engineers

Qualifications

You have: 

  • 8+ years of experience delivering quality software
  • Natural curiosity to learn new technologies, solve interesting problems and build quality software
  • Desire to find flaws in a system with many moving parts and take whatever steps are necessary to fix them
  • Desire to perform and grow as an engineer
  • Technical initiative and leadership on previous projects
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Technologies we use and teach:

  • Java, Kotlin, Go
  • Kubernetes, AWS
  • Jaeger, Prometheus, SignalFx
  • JUnit
  • Hibernate, Guice, GRPC

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, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, 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, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

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.

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