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 Team

The Identity Lifecycle team designs and builds scalable solutions to manage customer identity information. We focus on supporting our customers beyond the initial onboarding stage.

The Role

Due to working with our teams in Australia, we prefer this person to be in Pacific Time Zone (North America). As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for technical architecture, ensuring collaboration across a multitude of disciplines, and providing coaching and mentorship to your team and peers. You will drive the team's vision and roadmap alongside product management, designers, and the Cash App leadership team. 

You Will

• Lead and participate in critical technical, design, strategy and product discussions with leaders across the organization and company
• Work with cross-functional partners to build impactful products and platform features
• Build a world-class team by hiring exceptional talent, coaching and developing engineers, cultivating pragmatic engineering decision-making, and leveraging your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar
• Define your team’s vision and roadmap by thoroughly understanding your customers’ needs
• Creatively solve challenging technical problems at scale
• Foster ownership, inclusiveness, accountability, pragmatism, and urgency in the team
• Do whatever needs to get done to help your team execute. This could mean writing code, planning a team offsite, or covering an oncall shift.

You Have

• 8+ years working on complex systems and delivering quality software
• 2+ years experience directly managing engineers (including providing mentorship, feedback, and investing in the career growth of your team members)
• Well-developed curiosity and enjoy building creative solutions to complex problems
• Previous success prioritizing urgency, excellence, and delivery in a fast-paced and high-growth environment
• A history of healthy collaboration with product managers, engineers, and other engineering managers on developing roadmaps and executing against them
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability and autonomy
• Strong communication skills

Technologies We Use and Teach

• Java, Kotlin
• JUnit, Hibernate, Guice
• HTTP, JSON, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers
• Datadog
• MySQL
• Amazon Web Services
• Kafka and event driven architecture

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 also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

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.

Block will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.