Senior Software Engineer, Cash App Card

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 Team

At Cash App, we strive to build the best consumer financial products in the world. The Cash App Card team aspires to make the Cash Card the primary card of choice by building delightful and seamless end-to-end experiences for our customers.

We start by offering Cash App’s only hardware to customers through a personally tailored way via card customization, which has steadily driven the adoption of Cash Card as our customers’ top-of-wallet spending devices.

The Role

As a senior software engineer on the Cash App Card server engineering team, you will lead the technical design, execution, and delivery of new card ordering and management experiences to make Cash App Card the primary card of choice, through close collaboration across teams and disciplines.

In addition, you'll drive architectural decisions and infrastructure improvements to make our systems more robust and scalable.

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 scope, plan, design, and build new features as well as maintain existing functionality of banking features.
• Lead and participate in critical technical, design, and product discussions with leaders across the organization and company.
• Design systems to work within our microservice and event-driven architectures.
• 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.

You Have

• 5+ years of software development or equivalent experience.
• 2+ 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 to find flaws in a system with many moving parts and take whatever steps are necessary to fix them.
• The ability to design and build creative solutions to complex problems.
• A strong desire to perform and grow as an engineer.
• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Technologies We Use and Teach

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

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 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 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.

Block will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and fair chance ordinances.

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.

Zone A

$163,600 $245,400 USD

Zone B

$155,400 $233,200 USD

Zone C

$147,300 $220,900 USD

Zone D

$139,000 $208,600 USD

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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