Senior Software Engineer, Bank Rails, 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 57+ 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 teams that are hiring in the US & Canada on Financial Platform:

Bank Rails:

Our Bank Rails team is responsible for developing and supporting platform capabilities that provide banking features like issuing a DDA account, processing ACH transfers, check deposits, wires and others for tens of millions of customers. We develop scalable, reliable and flexible platforms that are able to support both Cash Apps customers as well as Square's sellers to leverage our expertise to provide state of the art services across Block.

You will:

• Design, build and support the core systems used to power the foundation of banking features on Cash App and Square
• Refactor and uplift existing systems and build new services
• Creatively solve challenging technical problems at scale
• 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

Qualifications

You have: 

• 8+ years of experience delivering quality software
• 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 $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 (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 insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits 

These benefits are further detailed in Block's policies. This role is also eligible to participate in Block's equity plan subject to the terms