Staff Android Software Engineer, Emerging UI

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
The Core Experiences group's mission is to elevate our key customer flows and experiences, establishing Cash App as a next-generation social bank.
This role is for a Staff Android Engineer for Emerging UI, a new workstream that is part of the Core Experiences group in Operating Systems. This engineer will work alongside 10 other ICs, but will be responsible for new initiatives.
We're looking for a highly entrepreneurial mobile engineer to help shape the future of Cash App by exploring new opportunities, rapidly prototyping, and transforming ambiguity into concrete experiences. If you thrive in early-stage product development, can navigate between scrappy prototyping and scalable engineering, and enjoy working cross-functionally with design and product teams, this role is for you.
You Will

• Independently own and drive new initiatives from concept to prototypes, while assessing feasibility.
• Collaborate closely with design and product teams to refine ideas into functional experiences, while balancing customer impact with technical feasibility.
• Bring a high degree of autonomy, ownership, and initiative.
• Deliver features to tens of millions of customers, while maintaining customer trust as a top priority
• Work across both startup-style, zero-to-one product development and large-scale, established engineering systems.
• Represent the team in architectural discussions and stakeholder conversations, serving as a bridge between our team and the broader mobile organization.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence and mentor engineers of all experience levels.
• Build end-to-end features of the app: networking, persistence, business logic, and UI
• Craft durable, well-tested code with an unwavering commitment to product quality
• Invent thoughtful Android tech and open source it
• Partner with iOS and backend developers on delivering remarkable solutions
• Have a meaningful impact on the future of the Cash App product

You have:

• 10+ years of experience creating readable, well-crafted, and maintainable code
• An ability to build fast and iterate, but also consider long-term scalability when necessary.
• Experience in early-stage product development, ideally having worked in both a startup and a large company to bridge both worlds.
• Experience voicing customer feedback into product solutions (engineering makes substantive contributions to product definition)
• Strong ability to work cross-functionally, especially with design, to bring innovative ideas to life.
• A commitment to continuous improvement (yourself, your teammates, your software)

Technologies we use and teach:

• Kotlin, including multiplatform with Zipline & Treehouse
• Unit tests, snapshot tests
• Compose, Coroutines, Molecule, SQLDelight, Retrofit, OkHttp, Wire, Moshi, Okio, Picasso, KotlinPoet
• Protocol buffers

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. Want to learn more about what we're doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page .
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
Zone B:
$263,600 - $395,400 USD
Zone C:
$263,600 - $395,400 USD
Zone D:
$263,600 - $395,400 USD
Every benefit we offer is designed with one goal: empowering you to do the best work of your career while building the life you want. Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offering. Check out our other benefits at Block.
Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy. Each of our brands unlocks different aspects of the economy for more people. Square makes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers. Cash App is the easy way to spend, send, and store money. Afterpay is transforming the way customers manage their spending over time. TIDAL is a music platform that empowers artists to thrive as entrepreneurs. Bitkey is a simple self-custody wallet built for bitcoin. Proto is a suite of bitcoin mining products and services. Together, we're helping build a financial system that is open to everyone.