Job Description

As a senior software engineer on the Cash App Families engineering team, you will lead the technical design, execution, and delivery of new experiences that empower families to manage their personal financial life in ways that are universally accessible, magically relevant, and impossibly simple. Our current focus is to build unique experiences tailored to teenagers and their respective parents/guardians. In addition, you’ll drive architectural decisions and infrastructure improvements to make our systems more robust and scalable. The products that you build will create significant impact at scale and will fundamentally change how families manage their money.

As a member of the team, you’ll:

• Partner closely with product managers, designers, engineers, and business leads to scope, plan, design, and build new features as well as maintain existing functionality of families features
• Lead and participate in critical technical, design, and product discussions with leaders across the organization and company
• Design systems to work within our microservice and event-driven architectures
• 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

Qualifications

• Drive to find flaws in a system with many moving parts and take whatever steps are necessary to fix them
• The ability to design and build creative solutions to complex problems
• A strong desire to perform and grow as an engineer
• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience

Technologies we use and teach (you don’t need to have experience using these):

• Java, Kotlin
• AWS
• HTTP, JSON, gRPC, Protocol Buffers
• OkHttp, Jetty, JUnit, Guice
• Hibernate, MySQL, DynamoDB
• Kafka, events, microservices
• DataDog, Prometheus, SignalFx