Staff Software Engineer, Merchant Experience

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/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.
Job Description
The Merchant Experience team's mission is to create a thriving network of active merchants that is easily accessible to consumers, making Cash App & Afterpay the most loved way to pay. Our team's focus is to lay the foundations to both support and grow our active merchant count at scale globally.
As a senior Software Engineer for the Merchant Experience team at Cash App, you will:

• Design, build and support merchant-facing platforms that are user-friendly and empower merchants to grow their business with Cash App.
• Evolve our architecture to scale with growth in customers and developers, working across large monolith codebases and microservices
• Maintain a high quality bar for our overall infrastructure by ensuring we have the right visibility into tracing, metrics, logging, and alerting
• Creatively solve challenging technical problems at scale
• Collaborate with product management and design to lead the development of new, high-impact experiences and help define the roadmap
• Mentor, lead, and support your colleagues to grow the team
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to provide support for our services

Qualifications
You have:

• 8+ years of software development or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience leading large scale features, which includes planning, managing and executing on the delivery projects in a timely manner while maintaining a high quality bar
• The ability to design and build creative solutions to complex problems
• Drive to find flaws in a system with many moving parts and take whatever steps are necessary to fix them
• A strong track record in helping other engineers grow
• Willingness to learn and apply new methodologies and techniques as required
• Bachelors' degree in Computer Science or relevant field
• Great communication skills, able to discuss engineering issues and trade-offs without hesitation.
• Must be based in PST due to working with our team in Australia

Technologies we use and teach:

• Kotlin, Java and JavaScript/Typescript (React/Redux)
• Buildkite, Kubernetes, Datadog
• Amazon Web Services
• HTTP, JSON, gRPC, Protocol Buffers
• Kafka, event-driven architecture, microservices

Qualifications
You have:

• 8+ years of software development or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience leading large scale features, which includes planning, managing and executing on the delivery projects in a timely manner while maintaining a high quality bar
• The ability to design and build creative solutions to complex problems
• Drive to find flaws in a system with many moving parts and take whatever steps are necessary to fix them
• A strong track record in helping other engineers grow
• Willingness to learn and apply new methodologies and techniques as required
• Bachelors' degree in Computer Science or relevant field
• Great communication skills, able to discuss engineering issues and trade-offs without hesitation.
• Must be based in PST due to working with our team in Australia

Technologies we use and teach:

• Kotlin, Java and JavaScript/Typescript (React/Redux)
• Buildkite, Kubernetes, Datadog
• Amazon Web Services
• HTTP, JSON, gRPC, Protocol Buffers
• Kafka, event-driven architecture, microservices