Senior Engineering Manager, Cash App Lending

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

Cash App's mission is to make money instantly available and universally accessible - all the products and features we've released in the app are based on those principles. Lending is one of the newest Cash App products and we're looking for a Senior Software Engineering Manager to join this team and help deliver on our vision of economic empowerment.

Lending offers Cash App users low-friction access to money without prohibitive repayment terms and the Lending Engineering team is focused on building the complex systems and tooling to support access and availability. Within Lending, the Product engineering team focuses on building the products and platforms that help deliver this access and credit to our customers at scale. We're looking for people who are as excited about our mission as they are about the technical challenges we have.

As an Engineering Manager of the Lending Product backend engineering team, you will lead your team in developing and improving Cash App's credit products for our customers. Working closely with product managers and designers, you'll drive the team's vision and roadmap to extend and expand credit access for Cash App customers.

We're looking for an engineering leader who shares our passion for building and scaling impactful teams, products, and businesses.

Work from anywhere: This role can be performed from any location in the USA

You Will

• Partner closely with product, design, engineering, operations and business leads to evolve your team's vision and roadmap by thoroughly understanding your customers' needs
• Build and manage a world-class team by hiring qualified candidates, coaching engineers, and shaping the team to scale with the needs of the business
• Lead and participate in critical technical, design, and product discussions with leaders across the organization
• Foster ownership, inclusiveness, psychological safety, accountability, and urgency in the team
• Provide mentorship to other members of the team
• Hold your teammates—and yourself—to high engineering standards through cultivating pragmatic engineering decision-making, and leveraging your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar
• You Have
• 12+ years working on complex systems and delivering quality software
• 4+ years experience managing teams
• Strong expertise in backend and distributed systems
• Demonstrated excellence in delivering organizationally important projects, setting strategic vision for teams, and evolving their teams to maximize flexibility, impact, and reliability.
• Track record of growing engineering teams and keeping engineers motivated and engaged.
• A history of healthy collaboration with product managers, engineers, and other engineering managers on developing roadmaps and executing against them
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to present technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Strong self-motivation to learn and grow
• Eagerness to share your own ideas, and openness to those of others
• An interest in working on a product that impacts people/businesses directly
• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical 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

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

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.

While there is no specific deadline to apply for this role, U.S. roles are typically open for an average of 55 days before being filled by a successful candidate. Please refer to the date listed at the top of this job page for when this role was first posted.