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 Cash Commerce team is building ways for customers to take their money further. As part of the Cash Commerce team, Afterpay is transforming the way we pay by allowing customers to buy products immediately and pay for their purchases over four installments. Started as a checkout solution on merchant websites, we now have our own app which millions of customers use regularly. Not only do we offer easy access to in-network merchants from our mobile app, we also have app exclusive merchants and gift cards that customers can shop right from our app.
We are embarking on a new 0 to 1 initiative to help our merchants find value based on their user data.This is a rare opportunity to become a founding member of a complex and transformative, multi-year initiative in its nascent stage.
We are looking for an engineering leader who is willing to take a complex problem, break it down into smaller parts and run with it. Successful engineers on this team are eager to take principled risks, get motivated by challenges and have a bias toward delivering value to our customers.
As a Principal engineer on the Cash Commerce team, you will:

• Lead the ideation, strategy, design, implementation of 0 to 1 products and infrastructure
• Partner closely with a full stack development team (engineers, designers, PMs, data scientists, business operations) to ship innovative and incredible experiences at scale
• Collaborate with multiple teams at Block distributed across different time zones
• Help structure our team's processes and operational excellence
• Lead and participate in critical technical, design, and product discussions

Qualifications
You have:

• 10+ years of software development or equivalent experience
• An analytical mindset with the ability to distill and communicate complex user data to make eng design decisions and determine roadmap prioritization
• Experience in building partner integrations
• Experience working with data science and privacy/risk team
• Ability to translate complex data sets into actionable insights for stakeholders
• Experience building backend systems with high availability, scalability, and reliability
• Proven collaboration skills to lead a project across multiple teams
• Ability to mentor junior engineers
• Exceptional written and verbal technical communication skills
• Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Highly preferred:

• Experience in user data platform, advertising, and identity. (Eg. worked in user identity space for marketing/targeting or integration with DSPs, Ad-managers)

Technologies we use and teach:

• Java, Kotlin
• MySQL, Dynamo, ElasticSearch
• gRPC and Protocol Buffers
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• DataDog, Prometheus

Qualifications
You have:

• 10+ years of software development or equivalent experience
• An analytical mindset with the ability to distill and communicate complex user data to make eng design decisions and determine roadmap prioritization
• Experience in building partner integrations
• Experience working with data science and privacy/risk team
• Ability to translate complex data sets into actionable insights for stakeholders
• Experience building backend systems with high availability, scalability, and reliability
• Proven collaboration skills to lead a project across multiple teams
• Ability to mentor junior engineers
• Exceptional written and verbal technical communication skills
• Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Highly preferred:

• Experience in user data platform, advertising, and identity. (Eg. worked in user identity space for marketing/targeting or integration with DSPs, Ad-managers)

Technologies we use and teach:

• Java, Kotlin
• MySQL, Dynamo, ElasticSearch
• gRPC and Protocol Buffers
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• DataDog, Prometheus