Software Engineer, Merchant Experience

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.

The Role

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. 

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
• 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
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to provide support for our services

You Have

• 3+ years of software development or equivalent experience quality bar
• Well-developed curiosity and enjoy building creative solutions to complex problems
• Willingness to learn and apply new methodologies and techniques as required
• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams
• Expertise in the full software development life cycle
• Strong communication skills, able to discuss engineering issues and trade-offs without hesitation.
• Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science or relevant field
• 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

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. 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 to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page.

Block will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.