Software Engineer, Block

• 3+ years experience building and operating quality software
• Demonstrated technical initiative on previous projects
• Strong communication skills and customer empathy
• High technical standards in software testing and delivery
• Growth mindset and a healthy comfort with ambiguity

Desirable

• Cash App has grown rapidly to 57+ million users moving billions of dollars daily
• To support this incredible growth, we are building out the Access organization
• Our mission is to maximize trust and expand access to our ecosystem, ensuring that every user feels safe and secure while using our platform
• We play a critical role in providing financial access to customers who are underserved by traditional financial institutions, and we are committed to creating a seamless and secure user experience
• Access is the cornerstone of Cash App, responsible for managing authentication, sessions, authorization, and protecting against account takeover and inauthentic logins
• We aim to build a reliable technical foundation and intuitive customer-facing features that enable authentic customers to consistently access their accounts while safeguarding them from unauthorized access and inauthentic actors
• About the teams on Access:
• Authentication: The Access Authentication team handles all things authentication at Cash App
• We ensure that our millions of customers can conveniently access their finances safely and reliably
• In addition to implementing and refining the core authentication customer experiences, like the customer login and account recovery flows, we support Cash App's expansion into new use cases with reliable, well-designed access control primitives that reduce customer exposure to risk and fraud
• Account Security: We ensure that our millions of customers can access Cash App safely and reliably while minimizing barriers to entry to the financial system
• We support Cash App’s expansion into new use cases and markets with reliable, well-designed control primitives that empower engineering teams across the company
• This team helps in identifying fraudulent activities and bot attacks to mitigate hacking and prevent account compromise
• The team builds tools to collect fraudulent signals, detect fraud patterns, and automatically mitigate attacks
• We provide security features and assets to protect customer accounts
• Account Foundations: The Account Foundations team focuses on evolving our account model and account holder structure, fosters coherent relationship modeling between them and enables seamless access management
• This allows customers to manage multiple accounts and allow access to other accounts
• We ensure the accounts model and infrastructure scale with emerging product changes, maintaining a high level of account security and clear, intuitive user experiences, directly contributing to Cashapp's business direction
• Design, build, and operate the APIs and services that power Cash authentication and authorization
• Evolve our architecture to scale with growth in customers and developers, working across large monolith codebases and microservices
• Collaborate with product management and design to lead the development of new, high-impact experiences and help define the roadmap
• Mentor, lead, and support your colleagues to grow the team
• Contribute to the broader tech and open source communities

• While there is no specific deadline to apply for this role, on average, U.S. open roles are posted for 70 days before being filled by a successful candidate