Senior Software Engineer - Tax Cloud Platform, Cash App

  • Full-time
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Company Description

Cash App is the fastest growing financial brand in the world. 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 app with over 36 million monthly active users. We are bringing a better way to send, spend, invest, and save to anyone who has ever sought an alternative to the traditional banking system. 

Loved by customers and pop culture, we’ve consistently held the top spot for finance in the App Store for many years, seeing more engagement with millions of followers across social media in a day than most brands see in a year. We are building an ecosystem to redefine the world’s relationship with money by making it universally accessible.

We want to hire the best talent regardless of location. Our employment model is distributed, offering the opportunity to collaborate with teams across the world in San Francisco, New York, St. Louis, Portland, Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, Sydney, and Melbourne.

Job Description

Cash App is a mobile-first bank that ranks in the top 10 free apps in the app store with a rapidly growing user base and feature set. Our mission is to redefine the world's relationship with money by making it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible.

Cash App is built as a service mesh, communicating via synchronous APIs as well as asynchronous events, built on AWS and Kubernetes. Tax is a recently acquired product running on Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes that needs to be integrated into the Cash App ecosystem.  The Tax Platform team is responsible for the mission-critical fabric that these services run on, and provides DevOps, service discovery, routing, self-healing, observability, and developer efficiency features that product teams use to operate their systems on Cash App’s platform.

You will:

  • Design, build, and own infrastructure projects that provide critical support for operating services at scale

  • Dig into the many parts of a large platform using a wide variety of analytical tooling, and if necessary, add some new ones

  • Use a data-driven approach to make the call on any new infrastructure that might need to be added, whether it’s off-the-shelf or built in-house

  • Knock down pieces of infrastructure and improve on it to demonstrate resilience

  • Work with bleeding edge cloud technology

Qualifications

You have:

  • Boundless curiosity, autonomy, and a strong sense of accountability

  • Strong desire to perform and grow as an engineer, and mentor other engineers

  • Demonstrated technical initiative and leadership

  • Self-possessed drive to challenge, automate and document

  • Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Technologies we use and teach:

  • Java, Kotlin, Go

  • Gradle, Maven, Make, Jenkins

  • GCP, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform

  • Firewalls, Routing, SSL, DNS, Mesh, Proxies

  • gRPC, Envoy / Istio

  • SignalFx, DataDog, Jaeger, Prometheus, Splunk, Grafana

Additional Information

Cash App treats all employees and job applicants equally. Every decision is based on merit, qualifications, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with each office’s corresponding local guidelines.

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