Software Engineer, Cash App - Lending Products

Block, Inc.
3 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 270K

Job location

Remote

Tech stack

Java
API
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon DynamoDB
Google Guice
Protocol Buffers
Gradle
Hypertext Transfer Protocols (HTTP)
Hibernate
JSON
JUnit
Uptime
MySQL
Open Source Technology
Redis
Jetty
Datadog
Kotlin
Event Driven Architecture
Low Latency
Kafka
gRPC
Microservices

Job description

Cash App's mission is to make money instantly available and universally accessible - all the products and features we've released in the app are based on those principles. Lending is one of the newest Cash App products and we're looking for a Software Engineer to join this team and help deliver on our vision of economic empowerment.

Lending offers Cash App and Afterpay users low-friction access to credit without prohibitive repayment terms, and the Lending Engineering team is focused on building the complex systems and tooling to support access and availability.The Lending Engineering team focuses on building the products and platforms that help deliver this access and credit to our customers at scale. We're looking for people who are as excited about our mission as they are about the technical challenges we have.

You Will

  • Partner closely with credit risk, legal & compliance, product managers and other engineers to take the Lending capability to the next level.
  • Lead or contribute to projects from hypothesis to production capability, ensuring ownership of the output quality.
  • Build financial primitives by acting as an IC or lead on atomic, composable, API-level building blocks that serve the Block's intelligence layer.
  • Take a developer-centric approach to designing and building clean APIs, optimizing strictly for uptime, latency, regulatory compliance, and cost-per-transaction.
  • Experiment with emerging approaches and support team capability by sharing learnings and providing feedback.
  • Operate and manage existing Cash services.
  • Make recommendations to improve the team and wider Engineering practices.
  • Help interview candidates, organize external recruiting/networking activities, and contribute to the broader tech and open-source communities., * Java, Kotlin
  • AWS
  • HTTP, JSON, gRPC, Protocol Buffers
  • OkHttp, Jetty, JUnit, Guice
  • Hibernate, jOOQ, Aurora, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Vitess
  • Kafka, event-driven architecture, microservices
  • DataDog
  • Buildkite, Gradle, We may use automated AI tools to evaluate job applications for efficiency and consistency. These tools comply with local regulations, including bias audits, and we handle all personal data in accordance with state and local privacy laws.

Requirements

  • Embrace an AI-first mentality. Leverage AI to augment your knowledge and capability in navigating development in complex systems with confidence.
  • Familiar with agentic engineering.
  • 5+ years working on complex systems and delivering quality software, with clear expertise developed in one or more technical areas.
  • Curiosity that pushes you to find flaws in complex systems and take whatever steps are necessary to fix them.
  • Resilience to persevere in complex situations across multiple axes: e.g., scale, uncertainty, and interconnectedness.
  • Self-directed and comfortable with ambiguity, with a willingness to publish your reasoning and be wrong publicly-which is essential for thriving in our transparent DRI/IC model.

Benefits & conditions

Every benefit we offer is designed with one goal: empowering you to do the best work of your career while building the life you want. Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offering. Check out our other benefits at Block.

About the company

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 50+ 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.

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