Senior Software Engineer, Compliance Tooling Engineering

Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams - People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more - provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.
The Role
The Compliance Engineering team builds high-scale analysis and visualizations systems to find and stop criminal activity and other bad behavior in billions of dollars of person to person, merchant, and Bitcoin transactions across the globe. We design solutions and ship code with the customer-centric focus of a product organization, serving Block Compliance's financial crimes operations. Preventing known bad agents from interacting on our service reduces the chance that they negatively impact our users and upend their lives, feeding into Block's mission to bring economic empowerment to all.
This role is for the Tooling Engineering team, which builds robust and user-friendly tools to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of Block's Compliance operations.
You Will

• Collaborate with Compliance and Product Development teams to design and implement workflows for Block's Compliance programs
• Create amazing data exploration and criminal case management tools for Block's Compliance organization
• Write and deploy code across all of Block's ever-evolving architecture
• Develop and support our tools as products, with a focus on elegant solutions, usability, and our customer needs
• Build our own platform of services and data pipelines, architected for scale
• Design to anticipate the future

You Have

• Relevant Bachelor's degree (or equivalent practical experience)
• 8 years of relevant industry (or additional academic) experience
• Experience working on distributed systems that require data consistency and high availability at scale
• Proficiency in Kotlin, Java, or other object-oriented programming languages
• Experience building user-facing tools
• Experience contributing to system migrations or modernizations
• Experience collaborating directly with stakeholder teams
• An iterative approach to developing MVPs and shipping quickly

Technologies We Use and Teach

• Kotlin, Protocol Buffers, GraphQL, Typescript and React
• Event-driven and microservice architectures
• Both relational and garden-variety wide column NoSQL databases

We're working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances.
We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we're doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page .
While there is no specific deadline to apply for this role, U.S. roles are typically open for an average of 55 days before being filled by a successful candidate. Please refer to the date listed at the top of this job page for when this role was first posted.
Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.
To find a location's zone designation, please refer to this resource . If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information.
Zone A:
$217,800 - $326,800 USD
Zone B:
$207,000 - $310,400 USD
Zone C:
$196,100 - $294,100 USD
Zone D:
$185,200 - $277,800 USD
Every benefit we offer is designed with one goal: empowering you to do the best work of your career while building the life you want. Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offering. Check out our other benefits at Block.
Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy. Each of our brands unlocks different aspects of the economy for more people. Square makes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers. Cash App is the easy way to spend, send, and store money. Afterpay is transforming the way customers manage their spending over time. TIDAL is a music platform that empowers artists to thrive as entrepreneurs. Bitkey is a simple self-custody wallet built for bitcoin. Proto is a suite of bitcoin mining products and services. Together, we're helping build a financial system that is open to everyone.