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, youll 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
- Bachelors 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
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 candidates 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 locations 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:
$263,600 - $395,400 USD
Zone B:
$263,600 - $395,400 USD
Zone C:
$263,600 - $395,400 USD
Zone D:
$263,600 - $395,400 USD
Application Guidelines Candidates may submit up to 9 active applications within a 60-day period. Reapplications to the same role are accepted 90 days after a previous application has been reviewed.
Use of AI in Our Hiring Process We may use automated AI tools to evaluate job applications for efficiency and consistency. These tools comply with local regulations, including bias audits, and we handle all personal data in accordance with state and local privacy laws.
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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.
