Senior Software Engineer - Banking Connections
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Full-time
Company Description
Today, we’re a partner to sellers of all sizes – large, enterprise-scale businesses with complex commerce operations, sellers just starting out, as well as merchants who began selling with Square and have grown larger over time. As our sellers scale, so do our solutions. We all grow together.
There is a massive opportunity in front of us. We’re building a business that is big, meaningful, and lasting. And we are helping sellers around the world do the same.
Job Description
As a software engineer on the Payment Platform team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the services and infrastructure that manage billions of dollars for Square. You will be deeply involved in the technical details of building highly available and reliable services, while also working with product teams to enable Square to rapidly build new capabilities for our merchants and buyers all over the world.
You will:
Build our Payments Platform in the cloud, used by the rest of the organization and a key strategic asset of Square
Design and implement high-volume, low-latency, distributed transaction processing systems, making thoughtful tradeoffs between consistency and availability when both are not possible
Abstract away the legacy APIs of our financial partners into consistent, coherent service APIs for Square’s products to build upon
Build systems that manage customers’ sensitive data and hold Square to the highest standards for security and compliance
Work cross-functionally with our product, business, and finance teams to develop Square’s global payments strategy
Design fault tolerant systems so the team can move fast without negatively impacting customers
Qualifications
You have:
Innate curiosity and a desire to be responsible for all aspects of reliably moving billions of dollars in a highly focused and highly functional team
Understanding and curiosity in creating highly available, scalable, low-latency, global systems
Track record of pursuing self directed side projects, research, or open source projects
Interest in changing the payments landscape in the US and globally
4+ years of software development experience in Java, Python or similar
Preferred experience but not required:
Java
Python
AWS DynamoDB, SQS, Lambda, Step Functions
MySQL, Guice, Guava, Protocol Buffers, jOOQ
Additional Information
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 a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
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.
Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Perks
We want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:
- Healthcare coverage
- Retirement Plans
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Wellness perks
- Paid parental leave
- Paid time off
- Learning and Development resources
Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.