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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.
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Engineering Leader to join CloudPlat as Head of our Data Platforms team, and lead our efforts in building, expanding and improving the Data capability across all of CashApp. As the Head of Data Platform, you will be responsible for creating and driving the vision, strategy, and execution of our Data Platform body of work. You will lead an organisation of highly experienced and motivated leaders and engineers, spread across Australia and North American east and west coasts. You will work closely with cross-functional teams (product managers, customers, security, infrastructure, foundational engineering, and senior leadership) to ensure that our infrastructure offering solves CashApp engineering and business needs and scale, and we are providing a highly robust ecosystem of integrated data capabilities that will help us accelerate many use-cases across the business (such as Data Integration, Analytics and processing services, archive, tiering and streaming to name a few). This is a highly visible and impactful role leading an extremely high leverage team.
You Will
- Define and execute the vision and strategy for the Data Platforms team
- Lead a team of 30 and growing engineering leads and senior engineers and work closely with product managers and customers to identify and prioritise areas for improvement
- Evangelise the importance of CashApp’s data platform and drive it’s adoption across CashApp Engineering and work to build a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
- Support the team in developing and implementing processes, tools, and automation to create and improve software and data engineering systems and processes, that will lead to simplified solutions with quicker time to market, and improve our data governance and compliance capability
- Experience in leading geographically distributed teams
- Track record of managing and leading high-performing engineering teams, including leading, mentoring, and coaching managers
- Experience working in a Data Platforms group, preferably building data infrastructure capabilities and driving adoption in an engineering organisation
- Track record in developing and defining strategy and product direction, and then work to execute it across the organisation
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong relationships with cross-functional teams and internal customers
- Obsessively customer-focused
- Strong rapport, trust, and influence with some of Cash’s larger product engineering teams, such as Financial Services, Health, FinPlat, OS, Commerce
*Open to remote - Australian Eastern and US PST time zones only*
Additional Information
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. 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: USD $269,600 - USD $329,500
Zone B: USD $269,600 - USD $329,500
Zone C: USD $269,600 - USD $329,500
Zone D: USD $269,600 - USD $329,500
To find a location’s zone designation, please refer to this resource. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information.
Full-time employee benefits include the following:
- Healthcare coverage (Medical, Vision and Dental insurance)
- Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account
- Retirement Plans including company match
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance
- Paid parental and caregiving leave
- Paid time off (including 12 paid holidays)
- Paid sick leave (1 hour per 26 hours worked (max 80 hours per calendar year to the extent legally permissible) for non-exempt employees and covered by our Flexible Time Off policy for exempt employees)
- Learning and Development resources
- Paid Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
- Additional Perks such as WFH reimbursements and free access to caregiving, legal, and discounted resources
These benefits are further detailed in Block's policies. This role is also eligible to participate in Block's equity plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies, and may be eligible for a sign-on bonus. Sales roles may be eligible to participate in a commission plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies. Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.
US and Canada EEOC Statement
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, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other 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.
Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.
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.
