Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

The Merchant Experience team’s mission is to create a thriving network of active merchants that is easily accessible to consumers, making Cash App & Afterpay the most loved way to pay. Our team’s focus is to lay the foundations to both support and grow our active merchant count at scale globally. 

As a senior Software Engineer for the Merchant Experience team at Cash App, you will:

• Design, build and support merchant-facing platforms that are user-friendly and empower merchants to grow their business with Cash App. 
• Evolve our architecture to scale with growth in customers and developers, working across large monolith codebases and microservices
• Maintain a high quality bar for our overall infrastructure by ensuring we have the right visibility into tracing, metrics, logging, and alerting
• Creatively solve challenging technical problems at scale
• Collaborate with product management and design to lead the development of new, high-impact experiences and help define the roadmap
• Mentor, lead, and support your colleagues to grow the team
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to provide support for our services

Qualifications

You have:

• 8+ years of software development or equivalent experience 
• 2+ 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
• The ability to design and build creative solutions to complex problems
• Drive to find flaws in a system with many moving parts and take whatever steps are necessary to fix them
• A strong track record in helping other engineers grow
• Willingness to learn and apply new methodologies and techniques as required
• Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science or relevant field
• Great communication skills, able to discuss engineering issues and trade-offs without hesitation.
• Must be based in PST due to working with our team in Australia

Technologies we use and teach:

• Kotlin, Java and JavaScript/Typescript (React/Redux)
• Buildkite, Kubernetes, Datadog 
• Amazon Web Services
• HTTP, JSON, gRPC, Protocol Buffers
• Kafka, event-driven architecture, microservices