Staff Software Engineer, Block
Developer Experience, CI/CD
$172.2-247.5k
Financial services ecosystem
Job no longer available
Financial services ecosystem
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$172.2-247.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create better tools to help everyone access the economy.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of industry experience
- Natural curiosity to learn new technologies, solve interesting problems and build quality software
- Strong desire to perform and grow as an engineer, and mentor other engineers
- Demonstrated technical initiative and leadership
- Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- The Developer Experience team is responsible for the day to day tools used by our 800+ engineers for building, testing and deploying their services
- Our mission is to empower our product engineers to develop and iterate as quickly as possible, by providing them with the best tooling in the industry
- As a member of Cash Platform’s Developer Experience Deploy team, you’ll collaborate with our stakeholders - including product engineers to:
- Design, build, and own tools and frameworks that provide critical support for building, testing and deploying microservices at scale across the whole organization with ease and confidence
- Being an advocate of the CI/CD practices. Demonstrate and provide appropriate education for our stakeholders to ensure tools are used in the most effective and efficient ways
- Dig into the many parts of a large platform using a wide variety of analytical tooling, and if necessary, to add some new ones
- Use a data-driven approach to make the call on any new tooling that might need to be added, whether it’s off-the-shelf or built in-house
- Partner closely with product managers, product engineers, and business leads to define our roadmap
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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