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. The Financial Platform Eng team is part of Block’s platform engineering org, with a mandate to run the foundational financial technology infrastructure supporting all our brands. Our charter includes building scalable, reliable, and forward-looking financial infrastructure, from revenue streams to reconciliations to GL to street reporting. As a Software Engineer, you'll design and build the backend services, integrations, and workflow engines that keep the foundational financial operations running. Often you will focus on transforming complex financial requirements into scalable technology solutions — with a specific emphasis on AI enablement. We are an AI-driven engineering team — we use agentic coding tools across our entire development lifecycle, from design exploration through implementation and review, and we expect every engineer to do the same. Success in this role depends on strong collaboration with cross-functional partners including Accounting, FP&A, Tax, Procurement, Product, TPMs, Engineering, and Data teams. Build financial operations and reporting infrastructure — Design and implement backend services for Accounting, FP&A, Tax, Procurement while keeping the company compliant. Lead a platform migration — Architect the migration of business-critical workflows from legacy vendor platforms to Block's internal systems, ensuring zero disruption to agents and customers during cutover Own integrations end-to-end — Design, build, and maintain integrations between internal platforms and external systems ( middleware, workforce management, Oracle fusion, Salesforce etc) using APIs, event streams, and messaging patterns Partner across the business — Work directly with operations, compliance, and product stakeholders to translate complex financial and regulatory requirements into well-architected technical solutions Ensure compliance and data integrity — Build systems with audit trails, access controls, and data governance baked in — not bolted on — to meet regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions raise the bar on code quality, testing, and operational reliability Direct AI agents across the full development lifecycle — from prototyping and implementation to debugging and code review — operating as the architect and decision-maker while AI handles the building Expand what's possible with AI tooling — identify opportunities to automate repetitive engineering work, improve code quality through AI-driven review, and share effective patterns with your team Embrace an AI-first mentality. Leverage AI to augment your knowledge and capability in navigating development in complex systems with confidence. ~ 6+ working on complex systems and delivering quality software, with clear expertise developed in one or more technical areas. ~ Proficiency in building and maintaining APIs and integrations — REST, gRPC, event-driven architectures, and data synchronization across multiple platforms ~ Experience working on financially sensitive or regulated systems — you understand why idempotency, audit trails, data retention, and access controls matter and you build for them by default ~ Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively with non-technical stakeholders — translating ambiguous business requirements from operations, compliance, and risk teams into well-scoped engineering work

Experience with platform migrations — moving business-critical systems between platforms with zero customer impact and phased rollout strategies Background in financial services domains — accounting, revenue forecasting, treasury operations, tax operations. Experience building multi-tenant or multi-BU platforms — systems that serve different business lines with shared infrastructure but configurable behavior Experience with operational analytics — building data pipelines or reporting systems that give operations leaders real-time visibility into performance AI-Driven Development: Claude Code, Goose (Block's open-source AI agent), Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) Languages: Kotlin, Java, Python, JavaScript Data: DynamoDB, MySQL, Kafka, Snowflake Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes 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. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances. Application Guidelines Candidates may submit up to 9 active applications within a 60-day period. Reapplications to the same role are accepted 90 days after a previous application has been reviewed. Use of AI in Our Hiring Process We may use automated AI tools to evaluate job applications for efficiency and consistency. These tools comply with local regulations, including bias audits, and we handle all personal data in accordance with state and local privacy laws. Contact us here with hiring practice or data usage questions. 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.

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