Software Engineer, Merchants and Partners

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 47 million monthly active customers. We want to redefine the world's 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. We've 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 Commerce owns our retail payment products including Cash App Pay and Afterpay products which gives our customers the ability to take their money further by opting to pay in full, pay in four, or longer term financing.
As a member of the Merchants & Partners team within Cash App Commerce, you will be responsible for supporting how our payment products are integrated and supported across our vast distribution network, composed of direct merchants (SMB, Enterprise), ecommerce platforms, and payment services providers.
As a software engineer on the Merchants & Partners team, you will be responsible for building, scaling, and maintaining Afterpay and Cash App's API platforms, which includes client authentication, a policy-based authorization framework, webhook configuration and delivery, API observability, and managing our API specifications and versioning strategy across our system.
You will:

• Work cross-functionally with our product, business, and finance teams to support new payment experiences for developers using our APIs and SDKs
• Own the design, development, and maintenance of new features and existing systems
• Design and implement high-volume, highly available (99.99%+), low-latency, distributed transaction processing systems, making thoughtful tradeoffs between consistency and availability when both are not possible
• Build systems that manage customers' sensitive data and hold Cash App to the highest standards for security and compliance
• See the big picture to design fault tolerant systems so the team can be brave, move fast, and break things, without showing a negative impact to customers

You have:

• 3 or more years of software development or equivalent experience
• Experience working with public APIs - either building or consuming them
• Experience with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed systems
• Strong desire to serve developers both internal and external
• A vested interest in advancing Cash App's vision of building for economic empowerment
• Aspirations to grow and learn as an engineer on a highly collaborative team

Technologies we use and teach:

• Kotlin, including JUnit, Guice and JVM
• HTTP/S, JSON, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and Open API
• AWS Aurora (MySQL), AWS Elasticache (Redis), AWS DynamoDB, NewSQL (horizontally-sharded databases)
• Amazon Web Services (EKS, SQS, S3, MSK, KMS)
• Event-driven, service-oriented architecture

Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.
To find a location's zone designation, please refer to this resource . If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information.
Zone A:
$198,000 - $297,000 USD
Zone B:
$188,100 - $282,100 USD
Zone C:
$178,200 - $267,400 USD
Zone D:
$168,300 - $252,500 USD
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.