Senior Software Engineer, Block
ML Platform
$168.3-297k
Salary dependent on location + Employee Stock Purchase Program
Financial services ecosystem
Be an early applicant
Financial services ecosystem
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$168.3-297k
Salary dependent on location + Employee Stock Purchase Program
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create better tools to help everyone access the economy.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of combined experience in software engineering and machine learning engineering
- 1+ years of experience with the ML lifecycle, such as feature engineering, model training, etc
- Strong technical judgment and meaningful experience handling complex technical concepts
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems built around ML
- A track record of healthy collaboration with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders
- Preferred: experience building machine learning platforms or infrastructure
What the job involves
- While your initial focus will be building self-service tooling for the model lifecycle, particularly model deployments, serving, and monitoring, you will also have opportunities to work across the entire machine learning lifecycle
- As a platform engineer, you will work with our internal customers to understand their needs and translate them into sustainable software solutions
- We are looking for someone who has experience as a machine learning engineer or a software engineer, as we operate at the intersection of those two roles
- Design and build tools and systems that make data scientists happier and more productive
- Work with data science and engineering teams across Block, Cash and Square, to understand their needs and solve their problems
- Lead architectural and design discussions to ensure our platform is modular, scalable, fault tolerant, and sustainably built
- Mentor your teammates and assist engineers on other teams who integrate with our platform
- Use your machine learning knowledge by providing insightful feedback
- Participate in an oncall rotation; maintain reliability standards while ensuring the team's oncall rotation is sustainable
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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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
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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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