Engineering Manager - Finance & Supply Chain Engineering

Block•Bay Area, CA, United States of America, CA

1d•$153,000 - $270,000

About The Position

Block’s Business Platform Engineering organization builds foundational systems supporting financial operations across Square, Cash App, TIDAL, and Proto. The Finance & Supply Chain Engineering team is developing financial and supply chain infrastructure for accurate reporting, operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and strategic decision-making. The Engineering Manager will lead engineers building mission-critical systems in areas such as Record-to-Report automation, financial planning and forecasting, tax and regulatory reporting, and supply chain planning and execution. This role will help establish a mostly greenfield team and platform, including agentic systems that automate workflows, reason across financial and operational data, assist decision-making, and make business processes more efficient, reliable, and scalable. The manager will shape team culture, engineering practices, technical strategy, product direction, architecture, and implementation. They will build and support a high-performing team, partner with Finance, Accounting, Tax, Compliance, Product, and Operations stakeholders, and ensure delivery of reliable, scalable, and well-governed systems.

Requirements

12+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years leading or managing engineers.
Experience in a technical leadership role with responsibility for delivery, execution, and team health.
Strong technical judgment and ability to guide architecture and design across distributed systems, data-intensive applications, automation platforms, or business-critical systems.
Interest in building intelligent or agentic systems that automate complex workflows, improve decision-making, and help teams operate effectively.
Experience partnering with non-technical stakeholders and translating complex business requirements into clear engineering priorities.
Track record of delivering reliable, well-tested, and maintainable production systems.
Strong communication skills and ability to create alignment across engineering, product, finance, compliance, and operations teams.
Comfort operating in ambiguous domains where business processes, regulatory requirements, and technical systems intersect.
Desire to build healthy teams, grow engineers, influence culture, and shape strategy from early-stage ideas through implementation.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with modern application, data, automation, and infrastructure patterns.
Familiarity with Go, Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, React, MySQL, Snowflake, AWS, S3, Aurora, Docker, Temporal, Prefect, unit and integration tests, RSpec, Vitest, Datadog, Sentry, HTTP, JSON, gRPC, agentic workflows, AI-assisted automation, or business process orchestration.

Responsibilities

Manage, coach, and develop engineers across experience levels, creating clarity, accountability, and growth opportunities.
Define the foundations for a new generation of financial and supply chain systems, including the team operating model, technical patterns, delivery practices, and long-term architecture.
Lead development of intelligent, automated systems that streamline financial operations, coordinate business workflows, improve decision-making, and reduce manual work.
Partner with engineering leads and cross-functional stakeholders to define architecture, roadmap, and execution plans.
Translate ambiguous business needs into clear technical priorities, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
Work with Finance, Accounting, Tax, Compliance, Product, and Operations to understand business processes and build systems for critical workflows.
Ensure systems are well-tested, observable, secure, and resilient for high-stakes financial operations.
Guide pragmatic decisions involving legacy systems, integrations, data pipelines, regulatory requirements, agentic workflows, and evolving business needs.
Foster a collaborative, inclusive, high-ownership team environment with strong engineering practices, code review, documentation, and incident learning.
Provide coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development; identify and grow future technical leaders.