Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Block is a company that aims to redefine the world's relationship with money through innovative financial products like Cash App. They are seeking a Software Engineer to join the Lending Engineering team, focusing on building systems and tooling to provide low-friction access to credit for users. The role involves collaboration with various stakeholders and leading projects to enhance the Lending capability.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with credit risk, legal & compliance, product managers and other engineers to take the Lending capability to the next level
- Lead or contribute to projects from hypothesis to production capability, ensuring ownership of the output quality
- Build financial primitives by acting as an IC or lead on atomic, composable, API-level building blocks that serve the Block's intelligence layer
- Take a developer-centric approach to designing and building clean APIs, optimizing strictly for uptime, latency, regulatory compliance, and cost-per-transaction
- Experiment with emerging approaches and support team capability by sharing learnings and providing feedback
- Operate and manage existing Cash services
- Make recommendations to improve the team and wider Engineering practices
- Help interview candidates, organize external recruiting/networking activities, and contribute to the broader tech and open-source communities
Skills
- Embrace an AI-first mentality. Leverage AI to augment your knowledge and capability in navigating development in complex systems with confidence
- Familiar with agentic engineering
- 5+ years working on complex systems and delivering quality software, with clear expertise developed in one or more technical areas
- Curiosity that pushes you to find flaws in complex systems and take whatever steps are necessary to fix them
- Resilience to persevere in complex situations across multiple axes: e.g., scale, uncertainty, and interconnectedness
- Self-directed and comfortable with ambiguity, with a willingness to publish your reasoning and be wrong publicly—which is essential for thriving in our transparent DRI/IC model
Benefits
- Remote work
- Medical insurance
- Flexible time off
- Retirement savings plans
- Modern family planning
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