Software Engineer, Shopping

Posted 8 Days Ago
Portland, OR
Hybrid
168K-297K Annually
Mid level
Fintech • Payments • Software • Financial Services
Afterpay is a people-powered movement to change the way we pay. Shop now, pay later.
The Role
As a backend Software Engineer, you will design and build highly available services for the Cash App shopping experience, explore new technologies, contribute to backend services written in Kotlin, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance user experiences.
Summary Generated by Built In

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.
Cash Shopping is a new team with a focus on building core e-commerce shopping functionality (navigation, search, filtering, offer feeds, storefronts, product pages, etc.) that helps users discover new offers from merchants and buy the products they want on Cash App.
We have a unique opportunity for a backend Software Engineer to join our team and make an immediate impact on our product by getting involved early on. As an engineer on our team, you will influence many aspects of our business through building software that powers the shopping experience and the content platform. This is an exciting opportunity to make a direct, tangible impact on our product and work on projects that are pivotal to our team's success and our company's growth.
You will:

  • Design, build, and own highly available services and infrastructure that enables commerce experience on Cash App.
  • Explore latest technologies such as LLM to achieve business impact.
  • Contribute to our backend services written in Kotlin along with other modern stacks running on AWS/Kubernetes.
  • Collaborate with senior and experienced engineers, Product Managers, Data Analysts, and Data Scientists on planning and implementing frictionless user experiences of product features through microservices, APIs, web-apps.
  • Own features and functions throughout their lifecycle from inception, rollout, launch, scale and iteration.


You have:

  • BS/MS/PhD in computer science or a related field.
  • 3-8+ years of software development or equivalent experience
  • Experience in architecting large-scale distributed systems.
  • Curiosity, persistence and a desire to get things done
  • Experience in and willingness to work with senior and junior engineers
  • Enthusiasm for solving business problems with technology
  • An execution-mindset and the ability to deliver with cross-functional teams that are globally distributed.


Technologies we use and teach:

  • Java, Kotlin, Ruby
  • MySQL, Dynamo, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL
  • gRPC and Protocol Buffers
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Kubernetes
  • DataDog, Prometheus, SignalFx, New Relic, Sumo Logic


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:
$198,000 - $297,000 USD
Zone B:
$188,100 - $282,100 USD
Zone C:
$178,200 - $267,400 USD
Zone D:
$168,300 - $252,500 USD
Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.

Top Skills

Java
Kotlin
Ruby

What the Team is Saying

Angel Lopez
Naomi Domkam
Alison Meyer
Jose Picado
Sunil Parekh
Han Qin
Kiersten Abueg
The Company
Melbourne, Victoria
900 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

We started a movement in which everyone can win – shoppers, retailers, society and every person on our team. To play fair, trust people and reward them for doing the right thing. We see and feel the impact of our work as more and more people gain financial freedom and retailers grow across the globe.

Founded seven years ago in Sydney, Australia, Afterpay has millions of active customers globally and is offered at the world’s best retailers around the world including Anthropologie, Revolve, DSW, GOAT, Finish Line, Levi’s, Mac Cosmetics, Ray-Ban and many others. Afterpay is on a mission to power an economy in which everyone wins.

Why Work With Us

We’re not trendsetters, we’re change makers. We follow through, we show up, and we make it happen, fast. We are uncomplicated people, who are not scared of the complicated. There’s no time to be just another bystander when you’re on our team, if you’ve got something to say, we want to hear it.

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