Senior Software Engineer, Block
Fraud Risk
+ Employee Stock Purchase Program
Financial services ecosystem
Job no longer available
Financial services ecosystem
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
+ Employee Stock Purchase Program
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create better tools to help everyone access the economy.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Interest in working full-stack across multiple technical domains, including backend microservices and internal tooling
- Experience building products end to end - technical design, implementation, testing, launch, and maintenance
- Metrics-oriented mindset: you want your work to be measurable and impactful
- Comfortable working with a globally distributed team of data scientists, engineers, and risk experts
What the job involves
- Risk Engineering works to protect Square and our customers $25B+ in payments from fraud and payment disputes
- We build systems to detect and respond to potential fraud threats, provide outstanding tools to agents for investigating fraud events, and give our customers seamless web and mobile experiences to manage and fight payment disputes
- Our mission is to protect Square, protect our customers, and make a complicated and sometimes painful process understandable to all
- Fraud Risk is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us build solutions that further these goals
- You will collaborate with teams across the company on new product and market launches to fight fraud and make realtime data available for scalable ML-based fraud decisioning
- Help us solve these challenging problems with data science, machine learning, and efficient tooling!
- Work with teams and roles across Square to develop new solutions and improve existing processes addressing fraud
- Develop essential tooling to act quickly on potential fraud
- Design fault-tolerant systems so the team can be brave, move fast, and break things, without ever showing a negative impact to customers
- Advocate and model engineering best practices
- Mentor other engineers
Salary benchmarks
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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