Block
Senior Software Engineer, Square Financial Services
Remote 30315 Foundational - SFS - Ops role with clear candidate location fit.
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Role overview
Senior Software Engineer, Square Financial Services
Requirements and responsibilities
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You Will
- 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.
You Have
- 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
Technologies We Use and Teach
- 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
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