Staff Software Engineer, Cash App Banking

Block; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Retirement savings plans

Modern family planning

Job summary

Block is seeking a staff software engineer for the Cash App Banking server team to guide the technical strategy, drive architecture, and scale our banking services across deployments. You will collaborate with product, design and engineering partners to deliver robust, secure financial capabilities.

You will mentor engineers, uphold high standards, and apply an AI-first mindset to improve systems, reliability and developer productivity across the organization.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software development or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years leading large-scale features with delivery oversight.
• Ability to identify and land globally optimal solutions in complex systems.
• Proven track record of growing other engineers.
• Bachelor’s Degree in CS/CE/SE or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering to set technical strategy.
• Influence leaders to drive efficient, scalable technical decisions.
• Contribute to system design and hands-on coding.
• Uphold high engineering standards for the team.
• Mentor engineers to broaden technical breadth and depth.
• Apply an AI-first mindset across the team.

Skills

12+ years software development

Leadership experience

Global systems design

Creative problem solving

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Java

Kotlin

AWS

gRPC

Protobuf

Kafka

Microservices

DataDog

Job 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 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

At Cash App, we strive to build the best consumer financial products in the world. The Cash App Banking team aspires to make Cash App the primary place for our customers to store, manage, and move money across all their banking needs. We achieve this by providing various offerings including a range of deposit and transfer options, savings and automation tools, and a suite of benefits for Banking customers, all while ensuring a fast and reliable experience.

As a staff software engineer on the Cash App Banking server engineering team, you will help lead the overall technical strategy of the team, through close collaboration across teams and disciplines. In addition, you’ll drive cross-cutting architectural decisions and infrastructure improvements to make our systems more robust and scalable. You will also foster the growth of aspiring engineers to expand their scope of influence beyond their immediate teams. The things that you build will create significant impact at scale and will fundamentally change the consumer banking landscape as we know it today.

You Will

• Partner closely with product managers, designers, engineers, and business leads to develop, communicate and execute technical strategies that benefit the Banking organization
• Play a critical role in influencing leaders across the organization and company to drive consistent, sound and efficient technical decisions
• Stay close to the details of systems that power our products by directly contributing to technical designs and staying hands on with code contributions
• Hold your teammates and yourself to high engineering standards
• Leverage your experience and knowledge to grow your teammates’ technical breadth and depth through direct coaching and mentoring
• Apply an AI-first mindset in your everyday work, raising the bar of AI application across the team by staying connected to efforts across the organization

You Have

• 12+ years of software development or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience leading large scale features, which includes planning, managing and executing on the delivery projects in a timely manner while maintaining a high quality bar
• Drive and experience in identifying, aligning and landing globally optimal solutions in a system with many moving parts
• The ability to design and build creative solutions to complex problems
• A strong track record in helping other engineers grow
• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience

Technologies We Use and Teach

• Java, Kotlin
• AWS
• HTTP, JSON, gRPC, Protocol Buffers
• OkHttp, Jetty, JUnit, Guice
• Hibernate, Aurora, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis
• Kafka, event-driven architecture, microservices
• DataDog
• Buildkite, Gradle

Block is an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis. We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, let your recruiter know. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build an inclusive workplace? Check out our Inclusion & Diversity page.

Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. Canada locations are categorized into one of two 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.

Zone A:

$222,900—$334,300 CAD

Zone B:

$222,900—$334,300 CAD

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
• Modern family planning