Senior Software Engineer, Square Financial Services

Block is a company built from many blocks, united by the purpose of economic empowerment. As a senior software engineer on the SFS Bank Platform team, you will lead the technical design, execution, and delivery of new banking primitives while collaborating across teams to enhance Block's financial 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
• 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 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