Software Engineer, Cash App Taxes

Block

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Work type: On-site
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $180,000–$270,000 / yr
Posted: 9 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live 2 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Similar $183k

This role $225k

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This role pays more than 77% of similar roles. Most pay $147,050–$218,150 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $225k versus about $183k 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 53 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $217,800–$326,800 across 52 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer, Cash App Taxes

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Careers - Software Engineer, Cash App Taxes joins the Tax Engine Server Engineering team to develop the codebase powering the tax filing experience. This role involves translating complex tax rules and requirements into maintainable code, designing high-quality features for federal and state form logic, and building tools that allow non-technical contributors to make safe changes. The engineer will manage architectural decisions to ensure system scalability and security while collaborating with product managers and tax experts. Key technical skills include backend development, object-oriented programming, and system design. The tech stack includes Java, Kotlin, iBatis, SQL relational databases, GCP, AWS, GitHub, HTTP, JSON, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Okta, Linear, and AI coding agents like Claude or Codex. This role solves the problem of simplifying complex tax filing processes into a seamless software solution for millions of users.

What does a Software Engineer earn in New York?

Median $224000 from 203 postings across 41 companies.

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Skills

Java Kotlin iBatis SQL Datadog Splunk New Relic GCP AWS GitHub HTTP JSON gRPC Protocol Buffers Okta Linear Claude Codex

What you'll do

Design, build, and own high-quality features for the Cash App tax filing experience.
Translate complex tax rules and requirements into clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
Build tools and guardrails to enable non-technical contributors to make safe code changes.
Drive architectural and design decisions to ensure software remains scalable, secure, and maintainable.
Establish best practices for coding, testing, deployment, and documentation.
Proactively identify and resolve issues related to accuracy, reliability, and performance.
Apply an AI-first mindset to improve development processes and tools.

What we're looking for

You must have 4+ years of professional software development experience.
Experience in the tax industry is a major plus.
You must possess strong technical skills in backend development, system design, architecture, and object-oriented programming.
You must have a track record of delivering reliable, high-quality software solutions on schedule.
You must have excellent communication skills to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
You should have strong problem-solving skills and a methodical approach to debugging.
A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required (or equivalent experience).

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