Software Engineer, Cash App - Lending Products

Block•Vancouver, BC

3d•$152,300 - $228,500•Remote

About The Position

Cash App's mission is to make money instantly available and universally accessible. Lending is one of the newest Cash App products, and this role will help deliver on the vision of economic empowerment. Lending offers Cash App and Afterpay users low-friction access to credit without prohibitive repayment terms. The Lending Engineering team is focused on building the complex systems and tooling to support access and availability of credit to customers at scale. This role is for individuals excited about the mission and the technical challenges involved.

Requirements

Embrace an AI-first mentality. Leverage AI to augment your knowledge and capability in navigating development in complex systems with confidence.
Familiar with agentic engineering.
5+ years working on complex systems and delivering quality software, with clear expertise developed in one or more technical areas.
Curiosity that pushes you to find flaws in complex systems and take whatever steps are necessary to fix them.
Resilience to persevere in complex situations across multiple axes: e.g., scale, uncertainty, and interconnectedness.
Self-directed and comfortable with ambiguity, with a willingness to publish your reasoning and be wrong publicly—which is essential for thriving in our transparent DRI/IC model.

Nice To Haves

Java, Kotlin
AWS
HTTP, JSON, gRPC, Protocol Buffers
OkHttp, Jetty, JUnit, Guice
Hibernate, jOOQ, Aurora, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Vitess
Kafka, event-driven architecture, microservices
DataDog
Buildkite, Gradle

Responsibilities

Partner closely with credit risk, legal & compliance, product managers and other engineers to take the Lending capability to the next level.
Lead or contribute to projects from hypothesis to production capability, ensuring ownership of the output quality.
Build financial primitives by acting as an IC or lead on atomic, composable, API-level building blocks that serve the Block's intelligence layer.
Take a developer-centric approach to designing and building clean APIs, optimizing strictly for uptime, latency, regulatory compliance, and cost-per-transaction.
Experiment with emerging approaches and support team capability by sharing learnings and providing feedback.
Operate and manage existing Cash services.
Make recommendations to improve the team and wider Engineering practices.
Help interview candidates, organize external recruiting/networking activities, and contribute to the broader tech and open-source communities.