Block

Block

Block is a company that consists of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, TBD, and foundational teams. They are focused on economic empowerment by creating tools to expand access to the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow businesses, Cash App redefin...

Capital Markets
10K-50K
Founded 2009

Description

  • Design and build new features for the banking platform to support Block’s products and services.
  • Lead the technical design, execution, and delivery of new banking primitives and large-scale features.
  • Partner with engineering teams across Block to onboard their products to Square Financial Services.
  • Build systems that handle highly sensitive customer data with strong security and compliance standards.
  • Prioritize correctness and fault tolerance in system design to reduce risk while enabling speed and innovation.
  • Use AI tools and an AI-first mindset to improve development efficiency and the engineering lifecycle.
  • Ensure critical services remain operational, troubleshoot incidents, and implement durable fixes.
  • Drive architectural decisions and infrastructure improvements to make systems more robust and scalable.
  • Mentor teammates and help raise engineering standards across the team.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of software development experience or equivalent.
  • 1+ years of experience leading large-scale features, including planning, managing, and delivering projects on time with a high quality bar.
  • Hands-on experience building software products or services in the cloud.
  • Experience building software that is easy to observe and operate.
  • Strong customer empathy and motivation to ship software that improves user outcomes.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; this is a remote-forward team.
  • Experience leveraging AI tools and frameworks to improve developer productivity, code quality, and system efficiency.
  • Background in financial infrastructure, especially ledgers or systems of record that require high consistency and correctness.
  • Proficiency building products and services using AWS.
  • Proficiency with Kotlin.
  • Experience building public APIs.
  • Experience with Kotlin/Java and Go is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Temporal.io, Kubernetes, AWS Fargate, ECS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Kafka, microservices, Protocol Buffers, gRPC, HTTP, OpenAPI, TypeScript, React, unit tests, and continuous integration is preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive market-based salary with U.S. zone-based pay ranging from $185,200 to $326,800 USD.
  • Remote work and a remote-forward team environment.
  • Medical insurance.
  • Flexible time off.
  • Retirement savings plans.
  • Modern family planning support.
  • Inclusive interview process with reasonable accommodations for disabled applicants.

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