Careers - Software Engineer, Cash App - Lending Products

Block

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Work type
On-site
Location
Bay Area, CA
Salary
$180,000–$270,000 / yr
Posted
44 days ago
Nearby
99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role pays more than 82% of similar roles. Most pay $145,000–$218,618 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $225k versus about $182k for comparable roles.

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About Block

Block, Inc. (formerly Square) is a financial technology company operating the Square merchant payments ecosystem, Cash App peer-to-peer payments, TIDAL music streaming, and Bitcoin-focused financial services. Industry: Financial Technology & Payments

Block currently has 138 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $180,000–$270,000 across 61 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Careers - Software Engineer, Cash App - Lending Products

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Cash App's Lending Engineering team seeks a Software Engineer to drive the development of financial primitives and complex systems that enable low-friction credit access for users. This role involves partnering with cross-functional teams including credit risk, legal, and product management to deliver high-quality software solutions from hypothesis to production. Engineers will focus on building clean APIs optimized for uptime, latency, regulatory compliance, and cost efficiency while experimenting with emerging technologies and contributing to the broader tech community. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in complex system development, a strong understanding of AI-first principles, and proficiency in Java, Kotlin, AWS, Kafka, and microservices architecture. This position requires resilience, self-direction, and a keen eye for identifying and resolving flaws in intricate systems at scale.

Skills

AWS Java Kotlin OkHttp Jetty JUnit Guice Hibernate jOOQ Aurora MySQL DynamoDB Redis Vitess Kafka event-driven architecture microservices DataDog Buildkite Gradle

What you'll do

  • Lead or contribute to projects from hypothesis to production capability.
  • Build financial primitives as an IC or lead on API-level building blocks.
  • Design and build clean APIs optimizing for uptime, latency, regulatory compliance, and cost-per-transaction.
  • Experiment with emerging approaches and share learnings to support team growth.
  • Operate and manage existing Cash App services efficiently.
  • Make recommendations to improve Engineering practices within the team.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience in developing complex software systems.
  • Expertise in Java and Kotlin programming languages.
  • Proficiency with AWS services and microservices architecture.
  • Experience with relational databases like MySQL and NoSQL solutions such as DynamoDB.
  • Knowledge of event-driven architectures and Kafka messaging system.
  • Ability to work independently in ambiguous situations and publish reasoning publicly.

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