Software Engineer, Person to Person (P2P) Payments

Cash App; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Cash App is looking for a Software Engineer to join the Person to Person (P2P) payments team. In this role, you'll scope and build impactful products while collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams. This position offers the flexibility to work from anywhere in North America, along with a competitive salary and benefits designed to empower your career.

Benefits

Remote work options

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Retirement savings plans

Modern family planning

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and delivering complex systems.
• Experience with backend systems and collaboration with mobile teams.
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture and cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale critical product systems impacting millions of users.
• Engage in discussions across engineering and product teams.
• Participate in on-call support for service reliability.

Skills

Collaboration

Creativity

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Java

Kotlin

AWS

Kafka

Job description

Software Engineer, Person to Person (P2P) Payments

Software Engineer, Person to Person (P2P) Payments

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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 ecosystem, developing unique financial products, including Afterpay/Clearpay, to provide a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our 50+ million monthly active customers. We want to redefine the world's relationship with money to make it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible.

Today, Cash App has thousands of employees working globally across office and remote locations, with a culture geared toward innovation, collaboration and impact. We've been a distributed team since day one, and many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Cash App operates. No matter the location, we tailor our experience to ensure our employees are creative, productive, and happy.

The Role

The P2P organization delivers a core product experience at Cash App. We are a experienced team of engineers accountable for growing the Cash App user base network, and maintaining a reliable product experience for the massive volume of money flowing through the app each week. Engineers on this team are responsible for building features that support millions of customers and billions of dollars worth of transactions each week.

Work from anywhere: This role can be performed from any location in North America

You Will

• Scope, build, and scale products, systems, and services that have an immediate impact on our customers
• Lead and participate in critical technical, design, and product discussions
• Participate in all parts of product development, working with non-Engineering related disciplines (Product and Design) and adjacent Engineering teams (Mobile, Platform, Machine Learning, and Data Science)
• Be part of a 24/7 on-call support roster for our services, with support from Cash App's core infrastructure teams and peer product teams
  
  

You Have

• 5+ years of experience working on complex systems and delivering quality software
• Curiosity, creativity, persistence and a desire to get things done
• A track record of healthy collaboration with product managers, engineers, and other engineering managers on developing roadmaps and executing against them
• Experience building backend systems and working with frontend/mobile teams
  
  

Technologies We Use and Teach

• Java, Kotlin
• HTTP, JSON, gRPC, Protocol Buffers
• Vitess, DynamoDB
• Kafka and event-driven architecture
• DataDog
• AWS, Kubernetes
  
  

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 an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

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.

While there is no specific deadline to apply for this role, U.S. roles are typically open for an average of 55 days before being filled by a successful candidate. Please refer to the date listed at the top of this job page for when this role was first posted.

Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and 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

$180,000—$270,000 USD

Zone B

$171,000—$256,600 USD

Zone C

$162,000—$243,000 USD

Zone D

$153,000—$229,600 USD

Every benefit we offer is designed with one goal: empowering you to do the best work of your career while building the life you want. Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offering. Check out our other benefits at Block.

Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy. Each of our brands unlocks different aspects of the economy for more people. Square makes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers. Cash App is the easy way to spend, send, and store money. Afterpay is transforming the way customers manage their spending over time. TIDAL is a music platform that empowers artists to thrive as entrepreneurs. Bitkey is a simple self-custody wallet built for bitcoin. Proto is a suite of bitcoin mining products and services. Together, we’re helping build a financial system that is open to everyone.

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