Senior Engineering Manager, Block
Compliance Engineering and Technology
+ Employee Stock Purchase Program
Financial services ecosystem
Open for applications
Financial services ecosystem
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Employee Stock Purchase Program
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create better tools to help everyone access the economy.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of relevant industry experience
- Java, Ruby or Python software development experience
- Some experience developing front-end applications
- Desire or experience working with Fintech, Regtech, Blockchain, machine learning, data science, and virtual currencies
- A curious, passionate, growth-oriented mindset
- Natural curiosity and a desire to manage all aspects of building our tools in a small, and very growing team
- You must enjoy writing and shipping production software
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an engineering lead to help us build new solutions that further those goals, joining our global compliance team in the process
- At our scale, we’re monitoring billions of dollars in transactions across traditional payment and blockchain networks
- We’re uncovering money laundering topologies before they impact our users and upend lives
- Help us solve these challenging problems with data science, machine learning and efficient tooling
- You will work with our teams to surface and display the appropriate data in a simple, thoughtful way
- Together, we’ll improve workflow and case tools, adding features that empower agent productivity and automate the high volume of monitoring and reporting we do
- Work with our internal users and engineering teams to build tools that solve our business problems
- Lead a world-class team and hire remarkable talent, coaching and developing your team, fostering engineering decision-making, and applying your technical expertise to maintain a high bar
- Launch iteratively and improve over time
- Write clean, testable code which will be a model for the team around you
- Oversee the success of your team's product and achieve quantifiable results on time
- Build systems, services, and product features across multiple platforms that have immediate impact on 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.
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Company Specialist
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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
Articles
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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