Staff Software Engineer, Block
Money Movement Team
$198-297k
+ Equity
Financial services ecosystem
Job no longer available
Financial services ecosystem
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$198-297k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create better tools to help everyone access the economy.
Role
Who you are
- BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience
- Experience with Java or Kotlin
- Experience in designing and productionizing large-scale distributed systems
- Experience with the complete development cycle, from product definition to delivery
- The ability to succeed in a collaborative environment partnering with product leaders, other teams and subject matter experts
- Ability to envision a technical approach/solution, socialize it and align partners towards it
- Experience with mentoring and upleveling team members
What the job involves
- The Money Movement 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 product teams using the platform capabilities. We also support first and third party integrations leveraging Banking’s APIs
- Design, develop, and maintain the services responsible for tracking and moving billions of dollars for Square
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and other partners to architect reusable, well-tested and forward-thinking features
- Lead 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
- Promote engineering best practices and help define technical roadmap for the team
- Deliver fault tolerant systems that allow teams to move quickly without negatively affecting our customers
Our take
Block is a financial services technology company comprising of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD. Its biggest brand, Square, offers hardware and software for small to medium-sized businesses enabling them to manage the entire payment lifecycle. It functions similarly to Shopify and Stripe, but has paired online payment processing with physical devices such as registers, payment terminals, and mobile card readers.
The business was originally founded as Square in 2009 by Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame. Already well-established with SMEs all over the globe, Square has significantly benefited from the increased demand for mobile payment systems. Its order management feature remains a go-to tool for small businesses that otherwise didn't have the proper infrastructure in place when demand for home delivery surged.
Square rebranded as Block in December 2021, with the Square brand name remaining in place for their seller business. The company has since come under fire for its security practices, facing lawsuits in relation to a major breach of CashApp user data, and in 2024 announced plans to reduce its workforce in order to cut costs. Despite these setbacks, there is every chance the business will move past this, though it may take some time to rebuild trust in its product.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Healthcare coverage (Medical, Vision and Dental insurance)
- Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account
- 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 (including 12 paid holidays)
- Paid sick leave (1 hour per 26 hours worked (max 80 hours per calendar year to the extent legally permissible) for non-exempt employees and covered by our Flexible Time Off policy for exempt employees)
- Learning and Development resources
- Paid Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jack Dorsey
(CEO)Having studied at and dropped out of New York University, Jack founded Twitter in March 2006, where he has served as CEO since. He co-founded Square with Jim in February 2009, and has remained its CEO ever since.
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