Software Engineer, Block
Merchants + Partners
CA$133.7-207.7k
Salary dependent on location
Financial services ecosystem
Job no longer available
Financial services ecosystem
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$133.7-207.7k
Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create better tools to help everyone access the economy.
Role
Who you are
- 3 or more years of software development or equivalent experience
- Experience working with public APIs - either building or consuming them
- Experience with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed systems
- Strong desire to serve developers both internal and external
- A vested interest in advancing Cash App's vision of building for economic empowerment
- Aspirations to grow and learn as an engineer on a highly collaborative team
What the job involves
- As a member of the Merchants & Partners team within Cash App Commerce, you will be responsible for supporting how our payment products are integrated and supported across our vast distribution network, composed of direct merchants (SMB, Enterprise), ecommerce platforms, and payment services providers
- You will build, scale, and maintain Afterpay and Cash App's API platforms, which includes client authentication, a policy-based authorization framework, webhook configuration and delivery, API observability, and managing our API specifications and versioning strategy across our system
- Work cross-functionally with our product, business, and finance teams to support new payment experiences for developers using our APIs and SDKs
- Own the design, development, and maintenance of new features and existing systems
- Design and implement high-volume, highly available (99.99%+), low-latency, distributed transaction processing systems, making thoughtful tradeoffs between consistency and availability when both are not possible
- Build systems that manage customers’ sensitive data and hold Cash App to the highest standards for security and compliance
- See the big picture to design fault tolerant systems so the team can be brave, move fast, and break things, without showing a negative impact to customers
Our take
Block is a financial services technology company comprising of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD. Its biggest brand, Square, offers hardware and software for small to medium-sized businesses enabling them to manage the entire payment lifecycle. It functions similarly to Shopify and Stripe, but has paired online payment processing with physical devices such as registers, payment terminals, and mobile card readers.
The business was originally founded as Square in 2009 by Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame. Already well-established with SMEs all over the globe, Square has significantly benefited from the increased demand for mobile payment systems. Its order management feature remains a go-to tool for small businesses that otherwise didn't have the proper infrastructure in place when demand for home delivery surged.
Square rebranded as Block in December 2021, with the Square brand name remaining in place for their seller business. The company has since come under fire for its security practices, facing lawsuits in relation to a major breach of CashApp user data, and in 2024 announced plans to reduce its workforce in order to cut costs. Despite these setbacks, there is every chance the business will move past this, though it may take some time to rebuild trust in its product.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Healthcare coverage (Medical, Vision and Dental insurance)
- Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account
- Retirement Plans including company match
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance
- Paid parental and caregiving leave
- Paid time off (including 12 paid holidays)
- Paid sick leave (1 hour per 26 hours worked (max 80 hours per calendar year to the extent legally permissible) for non-exempt employees and covered by our Flexible Time Off policy for exempt employees)
- Learning and Development resources
- Paid Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jack Dorsey
(CEO)Having studied at and dropped out of New York University, Jack founded Twitter in March 2006, where he has served as CEO since. He co-founded Square with Jim in February 2009, and has remained its CEO ever since.
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