Senior Software Engineer - Treasury, Financial 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/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

Cash App’s Financial Platform team is responsible for building systems that power products built by Cash App. We build deep integrations with underlying financial infrastructures and ensure that our products are able to scale. 

About the Treasury team that is hiring on Financial Platform:

Treasury:  The Treasury team owns the core ledger that powers Cash App, and are responsible for managing the money represented by that ledger. We provide product teams with a highly scalable, reliable, real time ledgering product that is relied upon across all of Cash App. As a product platform team, we focus on providing accessible capabilities to Cash App product teams, and get to work closely with just about every Cash App product. We also have a strong platform infrastructure focus, and operate the ledger on top of a massive sharded database cluster (Vitess).

Qualifications

You will:

• Design, build and support the core systems used to power all transactions on Cash App
• Break existing monoliths into event-driven microservices 
• Creatively solve challenging technical problems at scale
• Build and manage infrastructure in an AWS cloud environment
• Partner closely with product managers, data scientists, product engineers, and business leads to define our roadmap 
• Have autonomy to research and achieve outcomes with support when you need it
• Contributing to the growth of our development capabilities through leading, mentoring and supporting fellow engineers

You have: 

• 8+ years of experience delivering quality software
• 4+ years of experience provisioning and managing AWS infrastructure
• Natural curiosity to learn new technologies, solve interesting problems and build quality software
• Desire to find flaws in a system with many moving parts and take whatever steps are necessary to fix them
• Desire to perform and grow as an engineer
• Technical initiative and leadership on previous projects

Technologies we use and teach:

• Java, Kotlin, Go
• Kubernetes, AWS
• Jaeger, Prometheus, SignalFx
• JUnit
• Hibernate, Guice, GRPC

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