Job Description
ABOUT Health
Cash App has grown rapidly to 70+ million users moving billions of dollars daily. To support this, we are building out Health — a new Platform organization responsible for product experiences aimed at promoting the health of the increasingly complex Cash App ecosystem. Health works to improve Cash App access for our customers, while limiting access for bad or unauthorized users by detecting and preventing improper use across all of our core product areas. The teams under Health creating these mission critical services and products include Identity, Access, Risk Controls and Support Automation.
We appreciate broad perspectives, a willingness to dive deep, and a readiness to work collaboratively across many disciplines (including product, design, operations, legal, data science, ML).
ABOUT IDENTITY
The Identity team's mission is to create a customer identity framework that can help support Cash App's growth, while maintaining high levels of customer trust. We work with some of our customers' most sensitive data, and we take privacy and security seriously. As a server engineer on the Identity team, you will work on systems that allow our customers to gain access to the global financial system. The contributions you make on this team will be used by millions of people globally.
As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for technical architecture, growing the team, ensuring collaboration across a multitude of disciplines, and providing support to individuals through your mentorship and leadership skills.
YOU WILL:
Lead and participate in critical technical, design, strategy and product discussions with leaders across the organization and company
Lead mission-critical infrastructure that allows customers access to Cash App's increasingly complex ecosystem, and move it to the next generation
Build a world-class team by hiring exceptional talent, coaching and developing engineers, cultivating pragmatic engineering decision-making, and leveraging your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar
Define your team’s vision and roadmap by thoroughly understanding your customers’ needs
Build and design an identity platform that is scalable, secure, and elegant
Creatively solve challenging technical problems at scale
Qualifications
YOU HAVE:
8+ years working on complex systems and delivering quality software
2+ years experience directly managing engineers (including providing mentorship, feedback, and investing in the career growth of your team members)
Well-developed curiosity and enjoy building creative solutions to complex problems
Worked on systems where data consistency and availability is required
Previous success prioritizing urgency, excellence, and delivery in a fast-paced and high-growth environment
A history of healthy collaboration with product managers, engineers, and other engineering managers on developing roadmaps and executing against them
TECHNOLOGIES WE USE AND TEACH:
Java, Kotlin
JUnit, Hibernate, Guice, and Jersey
HTTP, JSON, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers
SignalFx, Sentry, Datadog
MySQL
Amazon Web Services
Event driven architecture
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.