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About the Role

As a staff software engineer on the Cash App Banking server engineering team, you will help lead the overall technical strategy of the team, through close collaboration across teams and disciplines. You'll drive cross-cutting architectural decisions and infrastructure improvements to make our systems more robust and scalable. You will also foster the growth of aspiring engineers to expand their scope of influence beyond their immediate teams. The things that you build will create significant impact at scale and will fundamentally change the consumer banking landscape.

Responsibilities

Partner closely with product managers, designers, engineers, and business leads to develop, communicate and execute technical strategies that benefit the Banking organization
Play a critical role in influencing leaders across the organization and company to drive consistent, sound and efficient technical decisions
Stay close to the details of systems that power our products by directly contributing to technical designs and staying hands on with code contributions
Hold your teammates and yourself to high engineering standards
Leverage your experience and knowledge to grow your teammates' technical breadth and depth through direct coaching and mentoring
Apply an AI-first mindset in your everyday work, raising the bar of AI application across the team by staying connected to efforts across the organization

Requirements

12+ years of software development or equivalent experience
3+ years of experience leading large scale features, which includes planning, managing and executing on the delivery projects in a timely manner while maintaining a high quality bar
Drive and experience in identifying, aligning and landing globally optimal solutions in a system with many moving parts
The ability to design and build creative solutions to complex problems
A strong track record in helping other engineers grow

Skills

Java
Kotlin
AWS
HTTP
JSON
gRPC
Protocol Buffers
OkHttp
Jetty
JUnit
Guice
Hibernate
Aurora
MySQL
DynamoDB
Redis
Kafka
event-driven architecture
microservices
DataDog
Buildkite
Gradle

Location

remote

Work Type

remote

Experience Level

Staff

Education Level

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

Salary/Compensations

$222,900—$334,300 CAD

Benefits

Remote work
Medical insurance
Flexible time off
Retirement savings plans
Modern family planning

About the Company

Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy. Each of our brands unlocks different aspects of the economy for more people. Square makes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers. Cash App is the easy way to spend, send, and store money. Afterpay is transforming the way customers manage their spending over time. TIDAL is a music platform that empowers artists to thrive as entrepreneurs. Bitkey is a simple self-custody wallet built for bitcoin. Proto is a suite of bitcoin mining products and services. Together, we’re helping build a financial system that is open to everyone.

Equal Opportunity

Block is an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, let your recruiter know. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build an inclusive workplace? Check out our Inclusion & Diversity page.