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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 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 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.

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.

• Collaborate with Compliance and Product Development teams to design and implement workflows for Block's Compliance programs.
• Create 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, focusing on elegant solutions, usability, and customer needs.
• Build our own platform of services and data pipelines, architected for scale.
• Design solutions that anticipate the future.

• 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.

• Kotlin, Protocol Buffers, GraphQL, Typescript, and React.
• Event-driven and microservice architectures.
• Relational and wide-column NoSQL databases.

We are committed to building a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to reflect these values in our workplace. Block is an equal opportunity employer, evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with applicable laws and ordinances.

We believe in fairness and are dedicated to an inclusive interview process, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants. Applicants are encouraged to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will handle these requests confidentially. To learn more about our efforts to create a fair workplace, visit our ID page.

While there is no specific deadline to apply, U.S. roles are typically open for about 55 days before being filled. Please check the posted date at the top of this job page.

Senior IC

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

Full Time

Years

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