Job Description

At Cash App, money inflows are the fuel of our business. As a member of the Transfers engineering team, you are responsible for helping our customers get money into the Cash App to use all of the products we have to offer (Cards, Stock, BTC, P2P). You will make it seamless for customers to move money into the Cash App and manage their balances by building new ways to move money.  Your work directly influences the success of Cash App and our ability to impact the financial lives of millions of people across the world. In addition, you will re-architect our infrastructure to make it robust and scalable to unlock new product opportunities.

You'll have the opportunity to move into a technical lead role and own the entire lifecycle of new projects with a team of engineers.

As a member of the team, you will:

• Identify, scope and lead large technical projects with enormous impact across the business

• Be actively involved in setting strategic direction and implementing an expanding roadmap

• Own problems end to end from ideation to planning, implementation, and launch

• Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design.

• Design APIs and data models to work within microservice and event-driven architectures

• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards

• Evolve and improve existing backend systems to meet product iteration velocity while maintaining a high quality bar

• Mentor other engineers and help to cultivate a fast growing team

Qualifications

YOU HAVE:

• 8+ years of software development or equivalent experience

• Experience building product/services end-to-end from technical design, implementation, testing to delivery

• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams

• 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

• Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices

TECHNOLOGIES WE USE AND TEACH (YOU DON’T NEED TO HAVE EXPERIENCE USING THESE):

• Kotlin and Java Web Services

• Hibernate, MySQL, DynamoDB

• Kafka and Event based microservices 

• AWS Cloud Services

• HTTP, JSON, gRPC, Protocol Buffers

• OkHttp, Jetty, JUnit, Guice

• DataDog, Prometheus, SignalFx

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, veteran status, 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, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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.