Senior Software Engineer, Compliance Tooling Engineering

Block; Kitchener; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Kitchener seeks a Senior Tooling Engineer to enhance compliance operations. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience, strong skills in programming languages like Kotlin or Java, and will collaborate with teams to build effective tools and workflows. This fast-paced role advocates for a secure economic environment for users.

Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant industry (or additional academic) experience.
• Experience working on distributed systems that require data consistency and high availability at scale.
• Proficiency in Kotlin, Java or other object-oriented programming languages.
• Experience building user-facing tools.
• Experience contributing to system migrations or modernizations.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Compliance and Product Development teams to design workflows.
• Create data exploration and criminal case management tools.
• Write and deploy code across Block's architecture.
• Develop and support tools as products with a focus on usability.
• Build services and data pipelines architected for scale.

Skills

Compliance Management

Risk Management

Financial Services

PCI

Banking

Cost Accounting Standards

Quality Systems

Research Experience

NIST Standards

Securities Law

SOX

ISO 27000

Education

Relevant Bachelor's degree (or equivalent practical experience)

Tools

Kotlin

Java

GraphQL

TypeScript

React

Job description

Overview

Block is one company built from many blocks all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams—People Finance Counsel Hardware Information Security Platform Infrastructure Engineering and more—provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies forecast finances give legal counsel safeguard systems nurture new initiatives and more. Every challenge creates possibilities and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.

The Role

The Compliance Engineering team builds high-scale analysis and visualizations systems to find and stop criminal activity and other bad behavior in billions of dollars of person-to-person merchant and Bitcoin transactions across the globe. We design solutions and ship code with the customer-centric focus of a product organization serving Block Compliances 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.

This role is for the Tooling Engineering team which builds robust and user-friendly tools to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of Block\'s Compliance operations.

You Will

• Collaborate with Compliance and Product Development teams to design and implement workflows for Block\'s Compliance programs
• 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
• Design to anticipate the future

You Have

• Relevant Bachelor\'s degree (or equivalent practical experience)
• 8 years of relevant industry (or additional academic) experience
• Experience working on distributed systems that require data consistency and high availability at scale
• Proficiency in Kotlin Java or other object-oriented programming languages
• Experience building user-facing tools
• Experience contributing to system migrations or modernizations
• Experience collaborating directly with stakeholder teams
• An iterative approach to developing MVPs and shipping quickly

Technologies We Use and Teach

• Kotlin Protocol Buffers GraphQL Typescript and React
• Event-driven and microservice architectures
• Both relational and garden-variety wide column NoSQL databases

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 an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and fair chance ordinances.

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 ID page.

While there is no specific deadline to apply for this role, U.S. roles are typically open for an average of 55 days before being filled by a successful candidate. Please refer to the date listed at the top of this job page for when this role was first posted.

Required Experience

Senior IC

Key Skills

Compliance Management, Risk Management, Financial Services, PCI, Banking, Cost Accounting Standards, Quality Systems, Research Experience, NIST Standards, Securities Law, SOX, ISO 27000

Employment Type: Full Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1