Remote Software Engineer - Compliance Platform

Block; United States; Remote; USD 207,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work option

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Retirement savings plans

Job summary

Block seeks a full‑time Software Engineer to join the Compliance Program Engineering team. You’ll design and operate platforms that label entities, manage transactions, and enable automated workflows across Block’s ecosystem.

You will work on microservice architectures, handle sensitive data, and partner with Compliance and Risk teams to deliver durable capabilities. Expect hybrid collaboration, with on‑call duties and a focus on AI‑driven velocity.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development or equivalent experience.
• Experience building and maintaining production software systems end‑to‑end.
• Worked across the stack: backend services and user interfaces.
• Ability to identify and fix flaws in complex systems.
• Curiosity about partly specified problems and a habit of asking concrete questions.
• Ability to explain tradeoffs to engineers and non‑engineers alike.
• Demonstrated AI fluency and experience with AI‑powered tools.
• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, ship, and operate features across transaction and labeling platforms.
• Write high‑quality, well‑tested code and participate in design/code reviews.
• Develop systems within microservice and event‑driven architectures handling sensitive data.
• Improve data coverage and usability of transaction data for investigators and analysts.
• Build self‑serve tools and high‑volume ingestion pipelines for onboarding products.
• Collaborate with Compliance, Risk, and product teams to create durable platform capabilities.
• Participate in on‑call, incident response, and postmortems.

Skills

Software development

Backend services

Distributed systems

AI fluency

Code reviews

On-call & incident response

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Java

Kotlin

React

TypeScript

AWS

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

LLMs/AI tooling

Job description

Block seeks a full‑time Software Engineer to join the Compliance Program Engineering team. You’ll design and operate platforms that label entities, manage transactions, and enable automated workflows across Block’s ecosystem.

You will work on microservice architectures, handle sensitive data, and partner with Compliance and Risk teams to deliver durable capabilities. Expect hybrid collaboration, with on‑call duties and a focus on AI‑driven velocity.