Role overview

Software Engineer, Cash App- Lending Products

Requirements and responsibilities

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You Will

  • Partner closely with credit risk, legal & compliance, product managers and other engineers to take the Lending capability to the next level.
  • Lead or contribute to projects from hypothesis to production capability, ensuring ownership of the output quality.
  • Build financial primitives by acting as an IC or lead on atomic, composable, API-level building blocks that serve the Block's intelligence layer.
  • Take a developer-centric approach to designing and building clean APIs, optimizing strictly for uptime, latency, regulatory compliance, and cost-per-transaction.
  • Experiment with emerging approaches and support team capability by sharing learnings and providing feedback.
  • Operate and manage existing Cash services.
  • Make recommendations to improve the team and wider Engineering practices.
  • Help interview candidates, organize external recruiting/networking activities, and contribute to the broader tech and open-source communities.

You Have

  • Embrace an AI-first mentality. Leverage AI to augment your knowledge and capability in navigating development in complex systems with confidence.
  • Familiar with agentic engineering.
  • 5+ years working on complex systems and delivering quality software, with clear expertise developed in one or more technical areas.
  • Curiosity that pushes you to find flaws in complex systems and take whatever steps are necessary to fix them.
  • Resilience to persevere in complex situations across multiple axes: e.g., scale, uncertainty, and interconnectedness.
  • Self-directed and comfortable with ambiguity, with a willingness to publish your reasoning and be wrong publicly—which is essential for thriving in our transparent DRI/IC model.

Technologies We Use and Teach

  • Java, Kotlin
  • AWS
  • HTTP, JSON, gRPC, Protocol Buffers
  • OkHttp, Jetty, JUnit, Guice
  • Hibernate, jOOQ, Aurora, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Vitess
  • Kafka, event-driven architecture, microservices
  • DataDog
  • Buildkite, Gradle
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