Staff Software Engineer, Cash App Banking

The Staff Software Engineer will provide technical leadership across banking-focused engineering initiatives, helping teams deliver secure, scalable, and customer-centered financial solutions. This role requires a balance of hands-on development, architectural ownership, strategic thinking, and mentorship.

• Partner with product managers, designers, engineers, and business stakeholders to define, communicate, and execute technical strategies that support banking product goals.
• Drive cross-functional architectural decisions and infrastructure improvements that enhance system reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Contribute directly to software design and implementation while maintaining strong engineering standards across the team.
• Influence technical direction across multiple teams by identifying opportunities for optimization, alignment, and long-term improvements.
• Design and deliver creative solutions for complex engineering challenges within large-scale financial systems.
• Mentor and coach engineers, helping them expand their technical capabilities and increase their impact across the organization.
• Promote an AI-first engineering mindset by exploring and applying modern AI capabilities to improve development practices and team productivity.
• Champion quality, operational excellence, and best practices across software development processes.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate is an experienced software engineering leader with a strong background in building large-scale systems and influencing technical direction across teams. You should bring deep engineering expertise, strong communication skills, and a passion for mentoring others.

• 12+ years of software development experience or equivalent technical expertise.
• 3+ years of experience leading large-scale engineering initiatives, including planning, execution, and delivery of complex projects.
• Proven ability to identify, align, and implement optimal solutions across sophisticated, interconnected systems.
• Strong experience designing and building scalable backend systems and distributed architectures.
• Ability to solve complex technical problems with creativity, sound judgment, and strong engineering principles.
• Demonstrated success in mentoring engineers and helping teams grow technically.
• Experience with backend technologies such as Java, Kotlin, cloud platforms, APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with technologies including AWS, HTTP, JSON, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Kafka, databases, caching systems, observability tools, and modern CI/CD practices.
• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and leadership skills with the ability to influence teams across an organization.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation package with a salary range of $222,900 - $334,300 CAD, depending on location, experience, qualifications, and market conditions.
• Remote-friendly work environment designed to support flexibility and productivity.
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical insurance and wellness support.
• Flexible time off policies to encourage sustainable work-life balance.
• Retirement savings programs to support long-term financial goals.
• Family planning and family support benefits.
• Opportunities to work on impactful products used by millions of customers.
• A collaborative culture focused on innovation, inclusion, continuous learning, and professional growth.