# Staff Software Engineer, Cash App Banking

**Company:** [Square](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/square)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** CA$223k – CA$334k/yr
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Java, Kotlin, AWS, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Junit, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka, Datadog, Gradle, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture
**Posted:** 2026-08-03

> Leads technical strategy and hands-on server engineering for Cash App Banking, driving scalable architecture, infrastructure improvements, and cross-functional technical decisions. Requires 12+ years of software development experience, large-scale delivery leadership, and strong mentoring skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead the overall technical strategy for the Cash App Banking server engineering team.
- Partner with product managers, designers, engineers, and business leads to develop, communicate, and execute technical strategies.
- Influence leaders across the organization to drive consistent, sound, and efficient technical decisions.
- Contribute directly to technical designs and code while driving cross-cutting architectural decisions and infrastructure improvements.
- Improve system robustness and scalability.
- Maintain high engineering standards.
- Coach and mentor engineers, helping them expand their technical breadth, depth, and scope of influence.
- Apply an AI-first mindset and raise the bar for AI applications across the team.

## Requirements
- 12+ years of software development or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years leading large-scale features, including planning, managing, and executing delivery projects while maintaining a high quality bar.
- Experience identifying, aligning, and implementing globally optimal solutions in complex systems.
- Ability to design and build creative solutions to complex problems.
- Strong track record of helping engineers grow.
- Bachelor's degree or diploma in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.

## Technologies
- 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

## Compensation and Benefits
- Canada Zone A: $222,900–$334,300 CAD.
- Canada Zone B: $222,900–$334,300 CAD.
- Benefits include remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning support.

## Similar jobs

- [Senior Staff Software Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/3f388646-0ba6-4256-bce9-76ba7aecfede) - Webflow - Remote - $205k – $316k/yr
- [Senior Staff Software Engineer, Finhub](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/1951727b-0f94-41ad-a9e8-bd7a603a152d) - Coinbase - Remote - $254k – $299k/yr
- [Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana App Platform](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/b9fae390-8767-4142-a84f-8ea457c4580f) - Grafana Labs - Remote - CA$186k – CA$224k/yr
- [Staff Backend Engineer - Second Horizon](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/de1ec2f7-6312-4e70-b6c0-6fc8476e4f59) - Grafana Labs - Remote - CA$186k – CA$224k/yr
- [Staff Software Engineer, GRC](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/3a506b48-97b0-44a6-8c94-1b8de6be5ad9) - Vanta - Remote - $260k – $306k/yr

**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/cd8858a6-c732-4fd2-b5c4-124b0acf6097
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/cd8858a6-c732-4fd2-b5c4-124b0acf6097