Software Engineer, Shopping

The Team

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 47 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

Cash Shopping is a new team with a focus on building core e-commerce shopping functionality (navigation, search, filtering, offer feeds, storefronts, product pages, etc.) that helps users discover new offers from merchants and buy the products they want on Cash App.

We have a unique opportunity for a backend Software Engineer to join our team and make an immediate impact on our product by getting involved early on. As an engineer on our team, you will influence many aspects of our business through building software that powers the shopping experience and the content platform. This is an exciting opportunity to make a direct, tangible impact on our product and work on projects that are pivotal to our team’s success and our company’s growth.

You Will

• Design, build, and own highly available services and infrastructure that enables commerce experience on Cash App.
• Explore latest technologies such as LLM to achieve business impact.
• Contribute to our backend services written in Kotlin along with other modern stacks running on AWS/Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with senior and experienced engineers, Product Managers, Data Analysts, and Data Scientists on planning and implementing frictionless user experiences of product features through microservices, APIs, web-apps.
• Own features and functions throughout their lifecycle from inception, rollout, launch, scale and iteration.

You Have

• BS/MS/PhD in computer science or a related field.
• 3-8+ years of software development or equivalent experience
• Experience in architecting large-scale distributed systems.
• Curiosity, persistence and a desire to get things done
• Experience in and willingness to work with senior and junior engineers
• Enthusiasm for solving business problems with technology
• An execution-mindset and the ability to deliver with cross-functional teams that are globally distributed.

Technologies We Use and Teach

• Java, Kotlin, Ruby
• MySQL, Dynamo, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL
• gRPC and Protocol Buffers
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Kubernetes
• DataDog, Prometheus, SignalFx, New Relic, Sumo Logic

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.