Senior Software Engineer, Savings - Cash App

Company Description

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 47 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.

Check out our locations, benefits, and more at cash.app/careers.

Job Description

At Cash App, we strive to build the best consumer financial products in the world. The Savings team aspires to make Cash App the most valuable and effortless place to build financial health through building delightful and differentiated end-to-end savings experiences for our customers. 

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Savings server engineering team, you will lead the technical design, execution, and delivery of new savings experiences to attract customers to build their wealth with Cash App, 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.

As a member of the team, you’ll:

• 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
   

Qualifications

You have:

• 8+ 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 (you don’t need to have experience using these):

• 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

Additional Information

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: USD $198,000 - USD $297,000
Zone B: USD $188,100 - USD $282,100
Zone C: USD $178,200 - USD $267,400
Zone D: USD $168,300 - USD $252,500

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. 

Full-time employee benefits include the following:

• Healthcare coverage (Medical, Vision and Dental insurance)
• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account
• Retirement Plans including company match 
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance 
• Paid parental and caregiving leave
• Paid time off