Principal Software Engineer, Cash Commerce

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Job Description

The Cash Commerce team is building ways for customers to take their money further. As part of the Cash Commerce team, Afterpay is transforming the way we pay by allowing customers to buy products immediately and pay for their purchases over four installments. Started as a checkout solution on merchant websites, we now have our own app which millions of customers use regularly. Not only do we offer easy access to in-network merchants from our mobile app, we also have app exclusive merchants and gift cards that customers can shop right from our app.

We are embarking on a new 0 to 1 initiative to help our merchants find value based on their user data.This is a rare opportunity to become a founding member of a complex and transformative, multi-year initiative in its nascent stage. 

We are looking for an engineering leader who is willing to take a complex problem, break it down into smaller parts and run with it. Successful engineers on this team are eager to take principled risks, get motivated by challenges and have a bias toward delivering value to our customers. 

As a Principal engineer on the Cash Commerce team, you will:

Lead the ideation, strategy, design, implementation of 0 to 1 products and infrastructure

Partner closely with a full stack development team (engineers, designers, PMs, data scientists, business operations) to ship innovative and incredible experiences at scale

Collaborate with multiple teams at Block distributed across different time zones

Help structure our team’s processes and operational excellence

Lead and participate in critical technical, design, and product discussions