Company Description

Cash App is the fastest growing financial brand in the world. 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 app with over 24 million monthly active users. We are bringing a better way to send, spend, invest, and save to anyone who has ever sought an alternative to the traditional banking system. 

Loved by customers and pop culture, we’ve consistently held the top spot for finance in the App Store for many years, seeing more engagement with millions of followers across social media in a day than most brands see in a year. We are building an ecosystem to redefine the world’s relationship with money by making it universally accessible.

We want to hire the best talent regardless of location. Our employment model is distributed, offering the opportunity to collaborate with teams across the world in San Francisco, New York, St. Louis, Portland, Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, Sydney, and Melbourne.

Job Description

The Global team's overall goal is to launch, build and sustainably grow Cash App beyond the US. Global has multiple product work streams that are responsible for enabling new markets, launching new products in existing markets and accelerating growth where we have found traction.

We are looking for a talented, entrepreneurial Staff Engineer with strong product know-how to help establish a new engineering team in Canada. 

You will be assisting:

• Product: Defining and executing the product roadmap alongside a product lead (what we launch, when we launch it).
• Engineering: Building or adapting systems to enable the execution of the product roadmap.
• Team Growth: Building and scaling an inclusive and diverse engineering team in Canada to meet the needs of the product roadmap.

This role will work closely with a Product Lead and cross functional foundational teams (Design, Operations, Machine Learning Engineering, Analytics, Compliance Regulatory and Customer Support) to collaboratively achieve these goals. Together, this team will be capable of enhancing our products in the US and successfully launching them into new markets.

• Partner closely with the Product Lead, designers, engineers, and business leads to define your team’s vision and roadmap by thoroughly understanding your customers’ needs
• Build products, systems, and services that have an immediate impact on our customers 
• Build a world-class team by hiring, motivating and retaining exceptional talent, coaching and developing engineers, cultivating pragmatic engineering decision-making, and leveraging your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar
• Lead and participate in critical technical, design, product and partnership discussions with leaders across the organization and company
• Foster ownership, inclusiveness, accountability, pragmatism, and urgency in the team
• Be responsible for the success of Cash App business outside of the US

Qualifications

You have:

• 12+ years of industry experience
• Are self motivated and curious
• An ability to uphold a high technical bar while making pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Computer Science

Technologies we use and teach:

• Kotlin, Go, Java
• AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Flux v2, Helm
• gRPC, Envoy, Istio
• SignalFx, DataDog, Prometheus

Additional Information

Cash App treats all employees and job applicants equally. Every decision is based on merit, qualifications, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. 

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with each office’s corresponding local guidelines.

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. 

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page. 

Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

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