Description
At Cash App, we strive to build the best consumer financial products in the world. The Cash App Banking team aspires to make Cash App the primary place for our customers to store, manage, and move money across all their banking needs.
As a staff software engineer on the Cash App Banking server engineering team, you will help lead the overall technical strategy of the team, through close collaboration across teams and disciplines. In addition, you'll drive cross-cutting architectural decisions and infrastructure improvements to make our systems more robust and scalable. You will also foster the growth of aspiring engineers to expand their scope of influence beyond their immediate teams.
Responsibilities:
- Partner closely with product managers, designers, engineers, and business leads to develop, communicate and execute technical strategies that benefit the Banking organization
- Play a critical role in influencing leaders across the organization and company to drive consistent, sound and efficient technical decisions
- Stay close to the details of systems that power our products by directly contributing to technical designs and staying hands on with code contributions
- Hold your teammates and yourself to high engineering standards
- Leverage your experience and knowledge to grow your teammates' technical breadth and depth through direct coaching and mentoring
- Apply an AI-first mindset in your everyday work, raising the bar of AI application across the team by staying connected to efforts across the organization
Requirements:
- 12+ years of software development or equivalent experience
- 3+ 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
- Drive and experience in identifying, aligning and landing globally optimal solutions in a system with many moving parts
- The ability to design and build creative solutions to complex problems
- A strong track record in helping other engineers grow
- Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
Technologies We Use and Teach:
- Java, Kotlin
- AWS
- HTTP, JSON, gRPC, Protocol Buffers
- OkHttp, Jetty, JUnit, Guice
- Hibernate, Aurora, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis
- Kafka, event-driven architecture, microservices
- DataDog
- Buildkite, Gradle