Job Description

Company 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, to provide a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our 50 million monthly active customers. We want to redefine the world\xe2\x80\x99s relationship with money to make it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible. This is our mission, and it\xe2\x80\x99s why working at Cash App means so much more than a job.

Today, Cash App has thousands of employees working globally across office and remote locations, with a culture geared toward innovation, collaboration and impact. We\xe2\x80\x99ve 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.

Check out our locations, benefits, and more at cash.app/careers!



Cash App\xe2\x80\x99s Financial Platform team is responsible for building systems that power products built by Cash App. We build deep integrations with underlying financial infrastructures and ensure that our products are able to scale.

About the Card Payment Rails team that is hiring in EMEA on Financial Platform:

The Card Payment Rails team owns the processing of every debit / credit card payment across all our card networks. We are building the payment processor that abstracts the complex domain-specific card networks operations into simple to use, highly scalable, reliable, and low latency APIs that power all card transactions across Cash App products. Our domain knowledge is deep in the card processing stack, and as a platform team, we want to deliver the best success rate for card transactions with the least cost and the most coverage to enable as many clients to use cards for transactions. Not only do we process transactions that withdraw money from a card, but we also use technologies that enable us to instantly push funds into clients\xe2\x80\x99 cards and deliver on Cash App\xe2\x80\x99s mission to make money instantly available and universally accessible.

You will:

• Lead the design, creation, and scaling of core systems used to power all transactions on Cash App
• Be actively involved in setting strategic direction and implementing an expanding roadmap
• Break existing monoliths into event-driven microservices
• Creatively solve challenging technical problems at scale
• Partner closely with product managers, data scientists, product engineers, and business leads to define our roadmap
• Have autonomy to research and achieve outcomes with support when you need it
• Contributing to the growth of our development capabilities through leading, mentoring and supporting fellow engineers

Qualifications

You have:

• 12+ years of experience delivering quality software
• Natural curiosity to learn new technologies, solve interesting problems and build quality software
• Desire to find flaws in a system with many moving parts and take whatever steps are necessary to fix them
• Desire to perform and grow as an engineer
• Technical initiative and leadership on previous projects

Technologies we use and teach:

• Java, Kotlin, Go
• Kubernetes, AWS
• Jaeger, Prometheus, SignalFx
• JUnit
• Hibernate, Guice, GRPC

Additional Information

We\xe2\x80\x99re 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, based solely on the core competencies required of the role at hand, and without regard to any 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 we\xe2\x80\x99re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our .

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.

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