Senior Software Engineer, Compliance Program 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 in order 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 newly formed Program Engineering team, which builds data enrichment pipelines and actioning tools to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of Block’s Compliance operations.

You Will

• Work closely with compliance partners to build scalable data enrichment pipelines to aid investigations and automation efforts
• Protect our platform from bad actors by building robust actioning tools that conform to regulatory requirements
• Write and deploy code across all of Block's ever-evolving architecture
• Develop and support our tools with a focus on fast developer experience and empowering partner team participation
• Help shape and influence our roadmap to scale our solutions for the future

About You

• Excited to work on fintech, machine learning, or preventing financial crimes
• Enjoy directly collaborating with stakeholder teams
• Have an iterative approach to MVPs and shipping

You Have

• 4+ years of industry experience or equivalent doing backend software development
• Kotlin, Java, or other object oriented software development experience
• Experience with building user-facing tools or contributing to system migrations

Technologies We Use and Teach

• Kotlin, Protocol Buffers, Typescript, AWS
• 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 also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

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.

Block will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.