Senior Software Engineer, Square Financial Services
About the role
Square Financial Services, Inc ("SFS") is Block's bank. The SFS Bank Platform team makes it easy to safely manage, move, reconcile, and understand all of the funds at SFS and with integrated Block products. We build the core system-of-record ledger for the bank, gateways to bank payment networks, and automations for the finance, treasury, and accounting teams. We're building a foundation to support more of Block's products.
Responsibilities
- Design and build new features into our banking platform that meet the diverse needs of Block's broad portfolio of products and services
- Partner with engineering teams across Block to help onboard their products to SFS
- Build systems that operate on our customers' most sensitive data, while holding Square to the highest standards for security and compliance
- Prioritize correctness and fault-tolerance in your designs so the team can move fast and innovate without putting our customers at risk
- Utilize AI tools and an AI-first mindset to accelerate development, improve efficiency, and streamline the engineering lifecycle
- Ensure the continued operation of our critical services, remediate any problems that occur, and design durable fixes so that they don't happen again
- Lead the technical design, execution, and delivery of large-scale features
- Mentor teammates to elevate engineering standards and foster a culture of technical excellence
Requirements
- 6+ years of software development or equivalent experience
- 1+ years of experience leading large scale features, which includes planning, managing and executing on the delivery projects in a timely manner while maintaining a high quality bar
- Hands-on skills building software products or services in the cloud
- A track record of building software that is easy to observe and operate
- A strong sense of customer empathy and a drive to ship software that improves their lives
Qualifications
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience leveraging AI tools and frameworks to improve developer productivity, code quality, and system efficiency
- Background in developing financial infrastructure, particularly ledgers or systems-of-record requiring high consistency and correctness
- Proficiency building products and services using AWS
- Proficiency with Kotlin
- Experience building public APIs
Skills
- Kotlin/Java, Go
- Temporal.io, Kubernetes, AWS Fargate + ECS
- AWS Aurora and DynamoDB
- Kafka, events, microservices
- Internal and industrywide AI enabling/powering tools
- Protocol Buffers, gRPC, HTTP, OpenAPI, TypeScript, React
- Unit Tests, Continuous Integration, and other methods of quality assurance
Benefits
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.
Pay
Zone A: $217,800—$326,800 USD
Zone B: $207,000—$310,400 USD
Zone C: $196,100—$294,100 USD
Zone D: $185,200—$277,800 USD
Schedule
Remote work
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Additional information
Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy. Each of our brands unlocks different aspects of the economy for more people. Square makes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers. Cash App is the easy way to spend, send, and store money. Afterpay is transforming the way customers manage their spending over time. TIDAL is a music platform that empowers artists to thrive as entrepreneurs. Bitkey is a simple self-custody wallet built for bitcoin. Proto is a suite of bitcoin mining products and services. Together, we’re helping build a financial system that is open to everyone.