Staff Software Engineer, Cash App Banking

Staff Software Engineer, Cash App Banking Remote New York, NY, US Posted Date: 04/30/26 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 50+ 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. The Role 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. We achieve this by providing various offerings including a range of deposit and transfer options, savings and automation tools, and a suite of benefits for Banking customers, all while ensuring a fast and reliable experience. 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. The things that you build will create significant impact at scale and will fundamentally change the consumer banking landscape as we know it today. You Will 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 You Have 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 Hibernate, Aurora, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis DataDog Buildkite, Gradle 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 an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances. 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. While there is no specific deadline to apply for this role, U.S. roles are typically open for an average of 55 days before being filled by a successful candidate. Please refer to the date listed at the top of this job page for when this role was first posted. Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future. To find a location’s zone designation, please refer to this resource . If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information. Zone A:

$263,600 - $395,400 USD

$263,600 - $395,400 USD

$263,600 - $395,400 USD

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$263,600 - $395,400 USD

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