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

  • Partner with credit risk, legal and compliance, product managers, and other engineers to advance the Lending product.
  • Lead or contribute to projects from hypothesis through production delivery, owning output quality.
  • Build atomic, composable, API-level financial primitives that support Block's intelligence layer.
  • Design and build clean APIs with a developer-centric approach focused on uptime, latency, regulatory compliance, and cost-per-transaction.
  • Experiment with emerging approaches and share learnings to improve team capabilities.
  • Operate and manage existing Cash services.
  • Recommend improvements to team practices and broader engineering processes.
  • Help interview candidates and support external recruiting, networking, and open-source/community efforts.

Requirements

  • 5+ years working on complex systems and delivering quality software, with deep expertise in one or more technical areas.
  • An AI-first mindset and the ability to leverage AI to augment development work in complex systems.
  • Familiarity with agentic engineering.
  • Curiosity to identify flaws in complex systems and take steps to fix them.
  • Resilience in complex situations involving scale, uncertainty, and interconnected dependencies.
  • Self-directed comfort with ambiguity and willingness to publish reasoning and be wrong publicly in a transparent DRI/IC model.
  • Experience working with one or more of the listed technologies: Java, Kotlin, AWS, HTTP, JSON, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Kafka, microservices, DynamoDB, Redis, MySQL, Aurora, Vitess, DataDog, Buildkite, Gradle, Hibernate, jOOQ, OkHttp, Jetty, JUnit, or Guice.

Benefits

  • Competitive market-based pay with location-based salary zones; starting range of $153,000 to $270,000 USD depending on zone.
  • Remote work options.
  • 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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