Software Engineer - Banking Platform

Company Description

Since we opened our doors in 2009, the world of commerce has evolved immensely, and so has Square. After enabling anyone to take payments and never miss a sale, we saw sellers stymied by disparate, outmoded products and tools that wouldn’t work together.

So we expanded into software and started building integrated, omnichannel solutions – to help sellers sell online, manage inventory, offer buy now, pay later functionality through Afterpay, book appointments, engage loyal buyers, and hire and pay staff. Across it all, we’ve embedded financial services tools at the point of sale, so merchants can access a business loan and manage their cash flow in one place. Afterpay furthers our goal to provide omnichannel tools that unlock meaningful value and growth, enabling sellers to capture the next generation shopper, increase order sizes, and compete at a larger scale.

Today, we are a partner to sellers of all sizes – large, enterprise-scale businesses with complex operations, sellers just starting, as well as merchants who began selling with Square and have grown larger over time. As our sellers grow, so do our solutions. There is a massive opportunity in front of us. We’re building a significant, meaningful, and lasting business, and we are helping sellers worldwide do the same.

Job Description

The Banking Platform team supports backend product experiences across Square Banking. When our merchants make a sale, our team enables them to automatically move a portion of their sales into savings or to repay a loan or to pay a credit card bill. We own Banking’s backend money movement infrastructure and support other Banking teams using the platform capabilities. We also support 1st & 3rd party integrations leveraging Banking’s APIs. 

Square Banking helps Square sellers manage their business finances with products including Checking, Savings, Loans, fast transfers, advanced reporting, and cash flow insights. With this suite of products, we ensure that our customers get access to the funds they need when they need them, and that they can always understand and control where their money is going. We partner with other platform and infrastructure teams to move billions of dollars each year on behalf of our sellers. 

We are a platform-focused engineering team with a backend focus. Our projects help Banking product teams to deliver cohesive and seamless seller experiences with high velocity. As a software engineer on the Banking Platform team, you will develop the shared platform components and infrastructure to support Banking products and marketing initiatives. You will be responsible for designing, building and owning sophisticated financial systems, and highly available services.

You will:

• Work with engineering, product, and other partners to build software that is clean, reusable, well-tested and forward-thinking by leveraging cloud technologies
• Oversee the entirety of your features, including component design, implementation, testing, and roll-out
• Maintain and promote operational excellence with focus on high reliability, performance and scalability
• Develop modern APIs for internal and external developers
• Promote engineering best practices and help define technical roadmap for the team
• Focus on delivering fault tolerant systems that allow teams to move quickly without negatively affecting our customers

Qualifications

You have:

• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of industry experience
• Experience with Java or Kotlin
• Experience contributing to small to medium-scale feature releases
• Interest in collaboration with other engineers and cross-functional partners

Technologies we use and teach:

• Java, Kotlin, Terraform, GraphQL
• MySQL, DynamoDB, Snowflake
• Protocol Buffers, Kafka, Envoy
• AWS and other cloud platforms

Additional Information

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.

Zone A: USD $152,100 - USD $185,900
Zone B: USD $144,500 - USD $176,700
Zone C: USD $136,900 - USD $167,300
Zone D: USD $129,300 - USD $158,100

To find a location’s zone designation, please refer to this resource. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information. 

Benefits include the following:

• Healthcare coverage
• Retireme