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 app, bringing a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our millions of monthly active users. With a mission to redefine the world's relationship with money by making it more relatable, instantly available and universally accessible, at Cash App you'll have the opportunity to make a real-world impact with your career.

Today, Cash App has thousands of employees around the world with a culture geared toward creativity, collaboration and impact. We’ve been a distributed team since day one, and continue to value working across time zones and continents both remotely and in our Cash App offices.

Our offices are great, but many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Block operates. We tailor our experience to champion our employees’ creativity and productivity wherever they are. 

Check out our locations, benefits and more at cash.app/careers.

As part of the newly formed Design Systems team, you will be the first engineer to join the design team. You’ll have the opportunity to build our design system manager, an internal product and toolkit, in collaboration with client and partner engineers that sit in Cash App’s Operating System group. In an effort to codify our design infrastructure, this role is critical to the success of scaling our brand and product offering.

You will:

• Build the Cash App Design System infrastructure in collaboration with our partners on the client engineering teams.
• Work with system designers to establish our token and library infrastructure. This can be managed in the design system manager and exposed across our brand ecosystem (mobile native, web, third party platforms, various creative/design software) 
• Collaborate with systems designers and our org wide partners to build, document, and design elements into the design system on an ongoing basis
• Work with our Client Server Interaction and client platform teams to establish and maintain automatic deployment and versioning of the Design Systems library.
• Build tooling solutions and integrations with various design software systems to push/pull updates from the design system
• Establish automated testing protocols to ensure system benchmarks are met for stability, accessibility, semantic consistency, and g11n/i18n while codifying system objects.
• Establish API & code review processes with engineering partners
• Work with our Customer Data Services & Globalization teams to build design software plugins that automate or expedite design tasks around content population and localization/translation

• 6+ years of experience working in software development or equivalent experience
• 1+ years experience working in an explicit design systems engineering role
• Experience successfully building design systems at scale within a large product organization with demonstrated experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams
• Proficiency with current UI and product workflow tools (figma, airtable, notion, etc.)
• Experience working with distributed teams in multiple time zones and an affinity for designing and facilitating asynchronous collaborative work
• Past work experience showcasing the ability to define major system workstreams, communicate a plan and success measurement framework, and then execute 
• A passion for learning new technologies and dot connecting design infrastructure to automate aspects of the design and development process
• Experience working with token workflows utilizing CSS/SCSS, React or an equivalent display layer framework

Even better:

• Experience working with creative & art directors, motion designers, audio designers, and illustrators as well as product designers, engineers, and product managers
• A portfolio showcasing experiences you’ve built for varying platforms and devices (iOS, Android, Responsive Web, etc) 
• Experience working with JavaScript animation frameworks like Lottie
• Past experimentation scripting SVG scaling and manipulation

Please submit a portfolio site or work samples for consideration. 

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. Square 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 TBD54566975, 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. TBD54566975 is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.