Senior Software Engineer - Tax Cloud Platform

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, 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. This is our mission, and it’s why working at Cash App means so much more than a job.

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

Cash App is a mobile-first bank that ranks in the top 10 free apps in the app store with a rapidly growing user base and feature set. Our mission is to provide banking services to all, in particular those that are underserved.  Cash is built as a service mesh, communicating via synchronous APIs as well as asynchronous events, built on AWS and Kubernetes. Tax is a recently launched product running on Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes, and the Tax Cloud Platform team is responsible for the mission-critical fabric that these services run on, and provides devops, service discovery, routing, self-healing, observability, and developer efficiency features that product teams use to operate their systems on Cash’s platform.

As a member of Cash App's Tax Cloud Platform engineering team, you’ll collaborate with our stakeholders, including product engineers, to:

• Design, build, and own infrastructure projects that provide critical support for operating services at scale

• Dig into the many parts of a large platform using a wide variety of analytical tooling, and if necessary, add some new ones

• Use a data-driven approach to make the call on any new infrastructure that might need to be added, whether it’s off-the-shelf or built in-house

• Knock down pieces of infrastructure and improve on it to demonstrate resilience

• Work with bleeding edge cloud technology

Qualifications

You have:

• Boundless curiosity, autonomy, and a strong sense of accountability

• Strong desire to perform and grow as an engineer, and mentor other engineers

• Demonstrated technical initiative and leadership

• Self-possessed drive to challenge, automate and document

• Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Technologies we use and teach:

• Java, Kotlin, Go, Groovy

• Gradle, Maven, Make, Jenkins

• GCP, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform

• Firewalls, Routing, SSL, DNS, Mesh, Proxies

• gRPC, Envoy / Istio

• SignalFx, DataDog, Jaeger, Prometheus, Splunk, Grafana

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 $202,500 - USD $247,500
Zone B: USD $192,400 - USD $235,200
Zone C: USD $182,300 - USD $222,800
Zone D: USD $172,200 - USD $210,400

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 (including 12 paid holidays)
• Paid sick leave (1 hour per 26 hours worked (max 80 hours per calendar year to the extent legally permissible) for non-exempt employees and covered by our Flexible Time Off policy for exempt employees) 
• Learning and Development resources
• Paid Life