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Cash App was borne out of a company hackathon at parent company Block (formerly Square) in 2013.
The first version of Cash App supported P2P payments via email and became popular among younger unbanked and underbanked users in the US. Marketed more like a slick social network than a bank, it suprassed previous incumbent Venmo in total users back in 2018.
Since then, Cash App has evolved into a feature-rich platform that helps people manage their cash, stocks, and bitcoin, with an over-arching goal to build a more inclusive economy with equal access to financial opportunity.
Analysts like Mark Goldberg have called the company's product velocity "head-spinning" and the company's engineering headcount is growing with incredible speed.
Cash App was borne out of a company hackathon at parent company Block (formerly Square) in 2013.
The first version of Cash App supported P2P payments via email and became popular among younger unbanked and underbanked users in the US. Marketed more like a slick social network than a bank, it suprassed previous incumbent Venmo in total users back in 2018.
Since then, Cash App has evolved into a feature-rich platform that helps people manage their cash, stocks, and bitcoin, with an over-arching goal to build a more inclusive economy with equal access to financial opportunity.
Analysts like Mark Goldberg have called the company's product velocity "head-spinning" and the company's engineering headcount is growing with incredible speed.
“One of the many things I was constantly amazed about during my first few weeks at Square/Cash App was seeing how fast this team shipped code.”
“With the Afterpay merger on the horizon and ambitious plans for growth that would nearly double Cash’s engineering org (as of August 2022, 47.7% of Cash Engineering has been here less than a year), all of us had questions about how Cash’s culture could adapt to this huge change.”
Block opened its first Australian office in Melbourne in 2015. Today, the Engineering team in Melbourne has grown into Cash App's second biggest engineering team.
The Engineering team's headcount is growing fast. In an effort to solidify its culture the team recently publicly shared its engineering principles.
These include taking care of one another, management as enablers not gatekeepers, process as a means rather than an end, trust colleagues by default, working in public, and being willing to cross team boundaries to get things done.One of the company's goals is to build a safe team environment where people are free to "just work".
Block opened its first Australian office in Melbourne in 2015. Today, the Engineering team in Melbourne has grown into Cash App's second biggest engineering team.
The Engineering team's headcount is growing fast. In an effort to solidify its culture the team recently publicly shared its engineering principles.
These include taking care of one another, management as enablers not gatekeepers, process as a means rather than an end, trust colleagues by default, working in public, and being willing to cross team boundaries to get things done.One of the company's goals is to build a safe team environment where people are free to "just work".
Cash App is a smaller subsidiary of Block (which employs over 4,000 engineers). The Cash App team has its own unique engineering culture, separate from that of its parent company. Teams work cross-functionally and across timezones.
Firstly, where possible the team works in public Slack channels, open sources work, and presents externally, with an emphasis on working in public wherever possible. Team members are encouraged to act as owners and to speak up when processes aren't working, regardless of seniority.
Lastly, good ideas aren't tied to seniority. Senior engineers will need to convince those around them of their ideas, just as a junior developer would.
The engineering org is split into teams which own various products, platforms and features of Cash App, from user activity, to tax, to cards, bitcoin, and user identity. Day-to-day tasks can include building end-to-end features (from networking to UI), testing code, re-architecting legacy code, working with other teams, voicing customer feedback, and working behind feature-flags.
Cash App is a smaller subsidiary of Block (which employs over 4,000 engineers). The Cash App team has its own unique engineering culture, separate from that of its parent company. Teams work cross-functionally and across timezones.
Firstly, where possible the team works in public Slack channels, open sources work, and presents externally, with an emphasis on working in public wherever possible. Team members are encouraged to act as owners and to speak up when processes aren't working, regardless of seniority.
Lastly, good ideas aren't tied to seniority. Senior engineers will need to convince those around them of their ideas, just as a junior developer would.
The engineering org is split into teams which own various products, platforms and features of Cash App, from user activity, to tax, to cards, bitcoin, and user identity. Day-to-day tasks can include building end-to-end features (from networking to UI), testing code, re-architecting legacy code, working with other teams, voicing customer feedback, and working behind feature-flags.
Cash App will set you up with the equipment you need to be productive and cover a portion of your home office expenses.
Reimbursement for some fitness expenses alongside ergonomics and meditation resources.
Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans.
Performance-based stock grants and Employee Stock Purchase Plans.
Access a variety of learning and development tools.
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