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SquareSquareNew York, NY

Staff Software Engineer, Cash App Banking

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Cash App's Banking server engineering team. Mentor engineers, drive cross-functional decisions, contribute hands-on to scalable systems using Java/Kotlin and AWS, with 12+ years experience.

264k – 395k/yr
Hybrid12+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

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
  • HTTP, JSON, gRPC, Protocol Buffers
  • OkHttp, Jetty, JUnit, Guice
  • Hibernate, Aurora, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis
  • Kafka, event-driven architecture, microservices
  • DataDog
  • Buildkite, Gradle

Skills

JavaKotlinAWSgRPCprotocol buffershibernateMySQLDynamoDBRedisKafkaDatadogbuildkitegradle
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