Job Description

The Compliance Engineering & Technology team builds systems which analyze and act on billions of dollars in blockchain, person to person, and merchant transactions across the globe to find and stop criminal activity. We design solutions and ship code with the customer-centric focus of a product organization, serving Block Compliance’s financial crimes operations. Preventing known bad agents from interacting on our service reduces the chance that they negatively impact our users and upend their lives, feeding into Block’s mission to bring economic empowerment to all. The Foundational Tooling subteam creates subsystems that are used by both Cash App and Square.

You Will:

• Work with Cash App and Square feature teams and support launches by building tooling to expose misuse by bad actors
• Create amazing data exploration and criminal case management tools for Block’s Compliance organization
• Write and deploy code across all of Block’s ever-evolving architecture
• Develop and support our tools as products, with a focus on elegant solutions, usability, and our customer needs
• Build our own platform of services and data pipelines, architected for scale and 
• Design to anticipate the future

Qualifications

You Have: 

• 3+ years of industry experience or equivalent doing software development
• Worked on distributed systems where data consistency and availability at scale is required
• Passion for improving economic opportunities, uncovering and preventing financial crimes, or working in the fintech space
• An iterative approach to identifying MVPs and shipping

We build distributed systems in the cloud with Kafka, AWS, and SKI. We manage our repository with Git, and use Ruby, Kotlin, and MySQL. If you don’t know any one technology, don’t worry! We’ll teach you!