Senior Software Engineer, Square Financial Services

Block•New York, NY

9h•$185,200 - $326,800•Remote

About The Position

Square Financial Services, Inc ("SFS") is Block's bank. The SFS Bank Platform team makes it easy to safely manage, move, and understand all of the funds at SFS. We build gateways to bank payment networks and the core ledger for the bank, we automate accounting operations for the finance team, and we're building a foundation to support more of Block's products. Come help us build a better bank!

Requirements

5 or more years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's Degree
Hands-on skills building software products or services in the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
A track record of building software that is easy to observe and operate
A strong sense of customer empathy and a drive to ship software that improves their lives
Excellent written and verbal communication skills. This is a remote-forward team.
Proficiency building products and services using AWS
Proficiency with Kotlin
Experience building public APIs
Experience building tools for finance operations

Nice To Haves

Kotlin/Java, Go
TypeScript, React, PhantomJS
Temporal.io, Kubernetes, AWS Fargate + ECS
AWS Aurora and DynamoDB
Swagger, Protocol Buffers, gRPC, REST
Unit Tests, Continuous Integration, and other methods of quality assurance

Responsibilities

Design and build new features into our banking platform that meet the diverse needs of Block's broad portfolio of products and services
Partner with engineering teams across Block to help onboard their products to SFS
Build systems that operate on our customers' most sensitive data, while holding Square to the highest standards for security and compliance.
Design fault tolerant systems so the team can be brave and move fast, without ever negatively affecting our customers.
Ensure the continued operation of our critical services, remediate any problems that occur, and design durable fixes so that they don't happen again