Backend Engineer, AI-Driven Financial Platform

Block; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Block is seeking a Software Engineer for the Financial Platform Eng team in San Francisco. You will design and build backend services powering accounting, FP&A, tax, and procurement, with a focus on scalable, auditable financial infrastructure and AI-enabled workflows.

Collaborate across Accounting, FP&A, Tax, Procurement, Product, and Engineering to translate complex finance requirements into robust tech solutions.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing scalable backend services.
• Experience with financial or regulated systems.
• Ability to translate complex finance needs into tech solutions.
• Proven collaboration with non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build backend services for accounting, FP&A, tax, and procurement.
• Lead migration of workflows from legacy vendors to Block's internal systems.
• Design workflow engines and event-driven automations.
• Own end-to-end integrations between internal platforms and external systems.
• Collaborate with operations, compliance, product to translate requirements.
• Ensure data integrity with audit trails and access controls.
• Lead architecture discussions and mentor engineers.
• Direct AI agents across the full development lifecycle.
• Explore AI tooling to automate repetitive engineering work.

Skills

AI-enabled engineering

Distributed systems

APIs & integrations

Java/Kotlin/Python

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Kafka

Snowflake

Oracle Fusion

Job description

Block is seeking a Software Engineer for the Financial Platform Eng team in San Francisco. You will design and build backend services powering accounting, FP&A, tax, and procurement, with a focus on scalable, auditable financial infrastructure and AI-enabled workflows.

Collaborate across Accounting, FP&A, Tax, Procurement, Product, and Engineering to translate complex finance requirements into robust tech solutions.