Staff Software Engineer, Trust (Identity)

Company Description

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 57 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. Check out our locations, benefits, and more at cash.app/careers.

Job Description 

Cash App has grown rapidly to tens of millions of users moving billions of dollars daily.To support this incredible growth, we are growing the Identity organization. Our mission is to create a customer identity framework that supports Cash App's growth while maintaining high levels of customer, partner, and regulatory trust. We work with some of our customer's most sensitive data, and we take privacy and security seriously. Our organization plays a critical role in providing financial access to customers who are underserved by traditional financial institutions, and we are committed to creating a seamless and secure user experience. This is a server engineering team that works cross-functionally with a variety of disciplines — client engineering, design, product, data science, compliance and legal.

About the teams hiring on Identity:

Identity Verifications: The Identity Verifications team designs and builds solutions that help customers onboard to Cash App. We focus on the initial collection and verification of information that allows customers to access our suite of financial products.

Identity Lifecycle: The Identity Lifecycle team designs and builds scalable solutions to manage customer identity information. We focus on supporting our customers beyond the initial onboarding stage.

As a member of the Cash App Identity team, you will:

• Design, Build and Support the core systems used to manage identity on Cash App
• Build and design an identity system that is scalable, secure, and reliable
• Creatively solve challenging technical problems at scale
• Leverage industry-leading identify verification technologies 
• Be involved in defining and implementing an expanding roadmap
• Collaborate closely with Compliance and Legal teams to support audits and implement regulatory controls
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to provide support for our services

You have:

• 8+ years working on complex systems and delivering quality software
• Well-developed curiosity and enjoy building creative solutions to complex problems
• Worked on systems where data consistency and availability is required
• Taken technical initiative on previous projects
• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams
• Expertise in the full software development life cycle
• Strong communication skills and customer empathy
• Contributing to the growth of our development capabilities through leading, mentoring and supporting fellow engineers

Technologies We Use and Teach:

• Java 11 including JUnit, Hibernate, Guice, and Jersey
• Kotlin
• HTTP, JSON, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers
• MySQL
• Amazon Web Services
• Event driven architecture

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.