Software Engineer, Cash Lending at Block

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 worlds 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. Weve 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 RoleCash Apps mission is to make money instantly available and universally accessible - all the products and features weve released in the app are based on those principles. Lending is one of the fastest growing Cash App products and were looking for a Software Engineer to join this team and help deliver on our vision of economic empowerment.Lending offers Cash 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. Were looking for people who are as excited about our mission as they are about the technical challenges we haveYou WillWork on impactful multi-person projects that cross Engineering team boundariesTake a developer-centric approach in designing and building APIsPartner with Product and Design contributing to roadmap discussionsDevelop Cash App Lending features and test everything you build thoroughlyOperate and manage existing Cash servicesMake recommendations to improve the team and wider Engineering practicesHelp interview candidates organize external recruiting/networking activities as well as contribute to the broader tech and open source communitiesYou Have5 years working on complex systems and delivering quality softwareDeveloped clear expertise in one or more technical areasCuriosity that pushes you to find flaws in a complex system and take whatever steps are necessary to fix themTaken technical initiative on previous projects having led or contributed to medium-to-large feature releasesThe ability to persevere in complex situations across multiple axes: e.g. scale uncertainty interconnectednessAn interest in working on a product that impacts people/businesses directlyTechnologies We Use and TeachJava KotlinAWSHTTP JSON gRPC Protocol BuffersOkHttp Jetty JUnit GuiceHibernate Aurora MySQL DynamoDB RedisKafka event-driven architecture microservicesDataDogBuildkite GradleWere 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 were doing to build a workplace that is fair and square Check out ourID 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. Key Skills Spring,.NET,C/C++,Go,React,OOP,C#,Data Structures,JavaScript,Software Development,Java,Distributed Systems Employment Type : Full Time Experience: years Vacancy: 1