Block

Staff Software Engineer, Cash App Banking

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Base Salary

$264k - $395k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with product managers, designers, engineers, and business leads to develop and execute technical strategies for the Banking organization.
  • Influence leaders across the company to drive consistent, sound, and efficient technical decisions.
  • Contribute hands-on to technical designs and code for systems powering Cash App Banking products.
  • Drive cross-cutting architectural decisions and infrastructure improvements that improve system robustness and scalability.
  • Lead planning, management, and execution of large-scale features while maintaining a high quality bar.
  • Coach and mentor engineers to expand their technical breadth, depth, and scope of influence.
  • Promote the effective use of AI applications across the engineering team.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of software development or equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years of experience leading large-scale features, including planning, managing, and executing delivery projects.
  • Experience identifying, aligning, and implementing globally optimal solutions in complex systems.
  • Ability to design and build creative solutions to complex problems.
  • Strong track record of helping other engineers grow.
  • Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

  • Remote work options and a distributed-team work environment.
  • Medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning benefits.
  • Inclusive interview experience with reasonable accommodations available for disabled applicants.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBApache KafkaAWSBuildkiteDatadogGradlegRPCJavaJUnitKotlinMySQLRedis

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About Block

10,000+ employees

Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.

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