Software Engineer, Person to Person (P2P) Payments

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 Role

The P2P organization delivers a core product experience at Cash App. We are a experienced team of engineers accountable for growing the Cash App user base network and maintaining a reliable product experience for the massive volume of money flowing through the app each week. Engineers on this team are responsible for building features that support millions of customers and billions of dollars worth of transactions each week.

Work from anywhere: This role can be performed from any location in North America

You Will

• Scope build and scale products systems and services that have an immediate impact on our customers
• Participate in all parts of product development working with non-Engineering related disciplines (Product and Design) and adjacent Engineering teams (Mobile Platform Machine Learning and Data Science)
• Be part of a 24/7 on-call support roster for our services with support from Cash Apps core infrastructure teams and peer product teams

You Have

• 2 years of industry experience
• Curiosity creativity persistence and a desire to get things done
• A track record of healthy collaboration
• Experience building backend systems and working with frontend/mobile teams

Technologies We Use and Teach

• Java Kotlin
• HTTP JSON gRPC Protocol Buffers
• Vitess DynamoDB
• Kafka and event-driven architecture
• DataDog
• AWS Kubernetes

Were 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 our ID 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.