Software Engineer, Limits, Trust
Software Engineer, Limits, Trust
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Job 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 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 team
The Limits Platform team is responsible for applying daily weekly and monthly limits on customer transactions across the Cash App ecosystem. We do this to manage risk and provide control over our products and to maintain the trust of our customers. Our systems track transactions across the vast majority of Cash App products and check them against our limit thresholds. As a server engineer on the Limits Platform team you will build scalable and performant solutions to protect our customers and allow them to gain access to the global financial system. The contributions you make on this team will be used by millions of people globally.
You Will:
- Design build and support the core systems used to track usage and check product limits in Cash App
- Manage the scalability of the Limits Platform to support Cash Apps growth
- Work closely with product teams as they leverage the Limits Platform for their products
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners in design product risk and data science
- Be responsible for the availability and performance of a critical system making rapid decisions at scale
- Help define and implement our roadmap and identify which problems the team needs to solve
You Have:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science (or equivalent practical experience)
- 2 years of relevant industry experience
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Java Kotlin Golang or similar)
- Experience working with APIs and backend systems
- Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to learn
- Effective communication skills and ability to work in a distributed team environment
- Basic familiarity with databases such as MySQL or DynamoDB
- Exposure to cloud-based infrastructure (AWS Kubernetes) is a plus
- Interest in financial systems and risk management
Technologies We Use and Teach:
- Java 11 including JUnit Hibernate Guice and Jersey
- Kotlin
- HTTP JSON gRPC and Protocol Buffers
- DynamoDB & MySQL
- Amazon Web Services
- Event driven architecture
Employment Type
Full Time
