Sr. Software Engineer, Financial Crimes Foundational Tooling

Company Description

Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.

Job Description

The Financial Crimes Technology team builds systems which analyze and act on billions of dollars in blockchain, person to person, and merchant transactions across the globe to find and stop criminal activity. We design solutions and ship code with the customer-centric focus of a product organization, serving Block Compliance's financial crimes operations. Preventing known bad agents from working on our service reduces the chance that they negatively impact our users and upend their lives, feeding into Block's mission to bring economic empowerment to all. The Foundational Tooling subteam creates subsystems that are used by both Cash App and Square.

You Will:

• Work with Cash App and Square feature teams and support launches by building tooling to expose misuse by bad actors
• Create amazing data exploration and criminal case management tools for Block's Compliance organization
• Write and deploy code across all of Block's ever-evolving architecture
• Develop and support our tools as products, with a focus on elegant solutions, usability, and our customer needs
• Build our own platform of services and data pipelines, architected for scale and
• Design to anticipate the future

Qualifications

You Have:

• 5+ years of industry experience or equivalent doing software development
• Worked on distributed systems where data consistency and availability at scale is required
• Experience improving economic opportunities, uncovering and preventing financial crimes, or working in the FinTech space
• An iterative approach to identifying MVPs and shipping

We build distributed systems in the cloud with Kafka, AWS, and SKI. We manage our repository with Git, and use Ruby, Kotlin, and MySQL. If you don't know any one technology, don't worry! We'll teach you!

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 $167,300 - USD $204,500
Zone B: USD $158,900 - USD $194,300
Zone C: USD $150,600 - USD $184,000
Zone D: USD $142,200 - USD $173,800

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
• Retirement Plans including company match 
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance 
• Paid parental and caregiving leave
• Paid time off
• Learning and Development resources
• Paid Life insurance, AD&D. and disability benefits 
• Perks such as WFH reimbursements and free access to caregiving, legal, and discounted resources 

This role is also eligible to participate in Block's equity plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies, and may be eligible for a sign-on bonus. Sales roles may be eligible to participate in a commission plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies. Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. 

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an in