Senior Data Enablement Engineer - Remote & Impactful

CoinBucha; California; Remote; USD 185,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Block, Inc. in the Bay Area seeks a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Enablement team to design, build, and operate backend systems that move data across Block.

You will own projects from design through production, expand external data acquisition, and contribute to Sessions analytics and ML initiatives. Strong architectural judgment and ownership are key; data engineering experience is a plus but not required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience designing, building, and operating distributed backend systems in production.
• A track record of leading technical projects, making sound architectural decisions, and turning ambiguous problems into well-defined, deliverable work.
• Proficiency in a backend programming language such as Java or Kotlin, with strong software design and engineering fundamentals.
• Experience building on cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS.
• The ability to learn unfamiliar systems and domains, communicate technical trade-offs clearly, and collaborate across software engineering, data engineering, and data science.
• Bonus points for a data engineering background, including data pipelines, large‑scale processing, or lakehouse and warehouse systems.
• Bonus points for hands‑on experience with Kafka and Spark Structured Streaming. Experience building and operating low‑latency streaming systems with Spark Structured Streaming is especially valuable.

Responsibilities

• Design and build shared backend services, platforms, and frameworks that support data acquisition, processing, and access across Block.
• Lead projects from problem definition and architecture through implementation, rollout, and ongoing production operation.
• Work across backend services, event-driven systems, and batch and streaming data processing to deliver reliable capabilities for downstream consumers.
• Partner with software engineers on the team and across the organization, Data Foundations engineers, and data scientists to turn their needs into reusable platform capabilities.
• Make practical architectural decisions that balance reliability, latency, scalability, cost, and maintainability.
• Improve the observability, data quality, and operational reliability of the systems you build and support.
• Mentor engineers, contribute to technical standards, and grow familiar with the team’s other domains over time.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Distributed backend systems

AWS

Tools

Kafka

Spark

Iceberg

Databricks

Snowflake

dbt

Prefect

DataHub

CloudEvents

Job description

Block, Inc. in the Bay Area seeks a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Enablement team to design, build, and operate backend systems that move data across Block.

You will own projects from design through production, expand external data acquisition, and contribute to Sessions analytics and ML initiatives. Strong architectural judgment and ownership are key; data engineering experience is a plus but not required.