Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning
- Full-time
Company Description
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 47 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.
Check out our locations, benefits, and more at cash.app/careers.
Job Description
Marketplace under Cash App provides different payment products such as BNPL (Buy Now, Pay Later) or pay monthly to customers. The Feature System team belonging to our Machine Learning Architecture organization is responsible for creating generalizable solutions and frameworks in the Machine Learning infrastructure and data space which enable and scale Machine Learning use cases in the Cash App.
As a member of the team, you will design, build and support the feature store and feature engineering pipeline for Marketplace Machine Learning. Also you will have the opportunity to help and establish best approaches to build scalable, iterable and reliable ML solutions and frameworks. We build our services over Cash App's ever-evolving infrastructure, and as a senior engineer on the team, you will embrace these changes and scale our tech stack to enable future evolvability. This is an exciting opportunity to make a direct, tangible impact on our product and work on projects that are pivotal to the business’s success.
You Will
- Design and build self-serving feature platform to handle new products and business requirements that securely scale over millions of users and their transactions
- Develop, integrate and optimize end to end feature engineering data pipeline
- Partner with ML modelers, data scientists, data analysts and domain engineering teams to identify and execute on new opportunities
- Demonstrate rigor in high code quality, good test coverage, and other engineering best practices
- Have autonomy to research and achieve outcomes with support when you need it
- Contribute to the growth of our development capabilities through leading, mentoring, and supporting fellow engineers
- Help build the next generation of machine learning infrastructure and architecture at CashApp
- Work in any AU Cash App office location, or work remotely in Australia.
Qualifications
You Have
- 7+ years of backend software development experience in building and maintaining applications in any mainstream language such as: Java, JavaScript, Python, Kotlin, Ruby, Go, Swift, C++
- Enthusiastic about solving business problems with technology and can take ownership of an end-to-end solution
- Passionate about continuously learning new technologies, frameworks, and services
- Possess an execution mindset and the ability to deliver with cross-functional teams that are globally distributed
- Serious about testing and have experience with automated testing frameworks
- Passion for Cash App's mission of economic empowerment
- Experience of building ML feature engineering data pipeline experience is a bonus
- Experience with common technologies, for example, Kafka, Airflow, Spark, Flink, Redis, Cassandra is a bonus
- A keen interest in advancing Cash App's vision of building for economic empowerment
Tools we use and teach
- Python, Java, Kotlin
- Snowflake, Databricks
- Kubernetes, AWS
- Datadog
- MySQL, Cassandra DB, DynamoDB
- HTTP, JSON, gRPC, Protocol Buffers
- Kafka, event-driven microservice architecture
Additional Information
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 a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, based solely on the core competencies required of the role at hand, and without regard to any legally protected class.
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, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.