Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

At Cash App, we strive to build the best consumer financial products in the world. The Cash App Banking team aspires to make Cash App the primary bank of choice by building delightful and differentiated end-to-end spending experiences for our customers. We are working to achieve this goal through our evolution of our offerings on deposit options, Cash App Card, personal financial management, and the accompanying benefits for Banking customers.

As a staff software engineer on the Banking server engineering team, you will lead the overall technical strategy of the team, through close collaboration across teams and disciplines. In addition, 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 as we know it today.

As a member of the team, you’ll:

• 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 code
• 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

You have:

• 10+ 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
• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience

Technologies we use and teach:

• 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