Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the Android platform, including modularization, dependency injection, navigation, deep linking, and app lifecycle systems.
- Create and deliver shared libraries and frameworks for feature teams, prioritizing developer and AI ergonomics.
- Advance Cash App's Android architecture with high-impact decisions that yield long-term benefits.
- Design innovative Android platform technologies and open source them when beneficial to the community.
- Enable rapid experimentation to support fast iteration in an AI-driven environment.
- Enhance observability and performance tools to provide engineers and on-call staff with clarity and confidence.
- Collaborate with iOS, web, and backend engineers to ensure consistent, high-quality cross-platform experiences.
- Lead as an AI-native engineer, evolving how the Android engineering organization uses AI.
- Identify and act on opportunities where AI creates significant leverage in platform and product engineering workflows.
- Introduce and evaluate emerging AI development tools, such as Claude Code, GPT/Codex, Goose, and future tools, forming clear adoption recommendations.
- Build AI-powered capabilities into the platform to create lasting value for product teams.
- Address cross-cutting technical problems across the Android organization and mobilize resources to solve them.
- Identify and communicate unknown risks and systemic issues before they impact customers or cause engineering crises.
- Lead architecture and design reviews across teams, helping establish scalable standards.
- Mentor and develop engineers at all levels, raising the technical expertise of the Android community.
- Partner with engineers, product managers, and designers to align platform investments with team needs.
- Represent Android platform requirements in cross-functional, cross-organization, and company-wide technical discussions.
- Communicate complex technical trade-offs clearly to engineers, product partners, and leadership.
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide) — remote from the countries where Cash App operates
What Makes This Role Special
- Foundational scope: Your work is the ground other engineers build on. When you move the platform forward, every Cash App engineer benefits and so do millions of customers.
- AI-forward by design: We're building the practices and systems to stay ahead of how AI is reshaping software engineering. You'll shape what that looks like at Cash App.
- Real organizational authority: At Block, you have the latitude to identify problems, set direction, and drive change across a large, ambitious engineering organization.
- Mission that matters: Everything we build serves Cash App's mission of economic empowerment for people who've historically been left out of the financial system.
Other
- Block is an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class.
- We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and 'fair chance' ordinances.
- We are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process.
- Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area.
- Candidates may submit up to 9 active applications within a 60-day period.
- Reapplications to the same role are accepted 90 days after a previous application has been reviewed.
- 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.
- Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offerings.
