Staff Software Engineer

We started a movement in which everyone can win shoppers retailers society and every person on our team. To play fair trust people and reward them for doing the right thing. We see and feel the impact of our work as more and more people gain financial freedom and retailers grow across the globe.

Founded 10 years ago in Sydney Australia Afterpay has over 24 million active customers globally and more than 250000 of the best retailers around the world including Anthropologie Revolve DSW GOAT Finish Line Levis Mac Cosmetics Ray-Ban and many others.

Afterpay is helping people spend responsibly! We empower customers to access the things they want and need while still allowing them to maintain financial wellness and control by splitting payments in four for both online and in-store purchases. Afterpay is deeply committed to delivering positive outcomes for customers. Now under the Block ecosystem we are focused on supporting our community of shoppers.

We trust in the next generation and share a vision of a more accessible and sustainable world in which people are rewarded for doing the right thing. Join a movement in which everyone can win.

The Role

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Consumer Lending Team youll lead the technical strategy and oversee the building of scalable and innovative Global Lending solutions impacting 24M customers across both the Afterpay and Cash App and Web Portals.

Were completely revamping how we connect Afterpay with the CashApp and Square ecosystem and how were making our global customers experience unique and rewarding.

This is a perfect opportunity for a software engineer who thrives in autonomous high-agency environments and enjoys championing product & technical initiatives that drive team and organisational-level impacts.

You Will

• Own the complete software lifecycle end to end - from initial design and development through production rollout and ongoing system support.
• Work in cross-functional Product engineering teams to drive discovery delivery and validation of product features.
• Drive system consolidations and service improvements that enhance overall platform reliability and performance.
• Proactively identify design and champion technical initiatives that deliver measurable organisational impact beyond immediate team boundaries.
• Influence technical direction and standards across multiple teams and product areas.
• Working with the most advanced suite of AI tools to improve engineering speed quality and learning whilst shaping practices that help with boosting efficiency & productivity.

You Have

• 10 years of strong experience building scalable and maintainable software applications using modern JVM languages preferably Java or Kotlin.
• Experience using backend technologies including Spring Boot ORM/Hibernate gRPC Kafka Redis Temporal workflow relational and NoSQL databases.
• Strong experience working with Cloud technologies preferably AWS stack.
• Strong experience with structured Logging error tracing service monitoring and alerting.
• Strong experience building testable decoupled maintainable code with high test coverage and quality in mind.
• Experience working within an agile and fast moving environment.

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 a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently without regard to identity or other legally protected class. 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.

Block is a globally distributed company and this role will require working with other employees in multiple time zones. You may be required to perform work outside of normal business as part of this role.

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