Staff Software Engineer, Cash App Banking

About 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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

Skills

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

Benefits

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 offerings.

Pay

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.

• Zone A: $263,600 USD - $395,400 USD
• Zone B: $263,600 USD - $395,400 USD
• Zone C: $263,600 USD - $395,400 USD
• Zone D: $263,600 USD - $395,400 USD

To find a location’s zone designation, please refer to this resource. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information.