Job Details

Overview

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The Banking Mobile team is a mobile development team focused on delivering high quality and seamless banking experiences. The team is responsible for both the mobile product surface for all of Square's banking products, and also a backend service that orchestrates service APIs to power our banking products. You will design, develop, and maintain functionality for Square's entire Banking product ecosystem. You will collaborate with other mobile and backend engineers plus our product and design teams to ensure that millions of merchants have a remarkable and reliable experience banking with Square. Mobile is a high priority for the Square Banking organization.

We value a culture of positivity, psychological safety, and inclusivity, and are looking for engineers who mentor others and contribute to a strong engineering culture.

You Will

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of critical features within our Banking product suite.
• Represent the team in architectural discussions and stakeholder conversations, serving as a bridge between our team and the broader organization.
• Help shape the future of our codebase by building flexible, extendable, and reusable components.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence and mentor engineers of all experience levels.
• Hold yourself and your teammates to the highest standard of engineering excellence, with unwavering attention to product reliability.
• Work with product managers, designers, and data scientists to shape the future of Banking at Square.
• Contribute to a culture of positivity, psychological safety, and inclusivity within the team.
• Mentor other engineers on Android best practices and architectural patterns.
• Contribute to the technical direction of our Android codebase.
• Use AI tools to accelerate the impact of yourself and your team.

You Have

• Relevant Bachelor's degree (or equivalent practical experience) plus 8+ years experience in Android software development.
• Strong technical problem-solving skills with a proven track record of debugging and resolving complex technical issues.
• Experience building and shipping substantial features in production Android applications.
• Deep understanding of Android architecture patterns, lifecycle management, and performance optimization.
• Track record of mentoring other engineers and providing technical leadership within a team.
• Understanding of payment systems and point of sale workflows is valuable but not required.
• (optional) Backend service engineering experience.

Technologies We Use and Teach

• Kotlin for mobile and backend development, leveraging Square's modern open source library, Workflow
• Espresso and Snapshot for testing
• Vendor SDKs, Service APIs, and Protocol Buffers
• Gradle for our build environment
• AI tools including Goose and Cursor
• LeakCanary, RXJava, Dagger, Mortar, and OkHttp among others

Compensation and Location

Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. The successful candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Zone A: $217,800—$326,800 USD

Zone B: $207,000—$310,400 USD

Zone C: $196,100—$294,100 USD

Zone D: $185,200—$277,800 USD

Use of AI in Our Hiring Process

We may use automated AI tools to evaluate job applications for efficiency and consistency. These tools comply with local regulations, including bias audits, and we handle all personal data in accordance with state and local privacy laws. Contact us at ...@block.xyz with hiring practice or data usage questions.

Benefits and Company Information

Every benefit we offer is designed with one goal: empowering you to do the best work of your career while building the life you want. Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offering. Check out our other benefits at Block. Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy. Each of our brands unlocks different aspects of the economy for more people. Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey, Proto are part of our ecosystem. Together, we're helping build a financial system that is open to everyone.