Senior Software Engineer, Employee Experience (EXE) Remote

Block; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Block, in the Bay Area, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Employee Experience Engineering (EXE). You will design, build, and operate internal applications and services that improve the employee journey from hiring through ongoing access to corporate systems.

You’ll own end-to-end delivery, collaborate across teams, and help shape technical direction in a fast-paced, security-focused environment. The role requires strong full-stack capabilities, experience with React and Rails, API

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong full-stack development experience.
• Experience with React, Ruby on Rails, or comparable frameworks.
• Experience designing, developing, and integrating RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, data structures, and engineering fundamentals.
• Experience with distributed systems, service reliability, and observability.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and production monitoring.
• Ability to independently drive complex technical projects and collaborate across engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable internal applications, platforms, and backend services.
• Develop features and automated workflows that improve the employee experience across hiring, onboarding, and ongoing access to corporate services.
• Build and maintain APIs and integrations connecting internal platforms, enterprise applications, and third-party services.
• Own software solutions end-to-end, from technical design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and ongoing support.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Corporate Engineering, People Technology, Security, and other cross-functional teams to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture discussions, code reviews, mentoring, and engineering best practices.
• Improve application performance, reliability, observability, and maintainability.
• Contribute to technical roadmaps, architectural decisions, and long-term platform improvements.
• Explore emerging technologies, including AI-powered capabilities, to improve employee workflows and engineering productivity.

Skills

Full-stack development

React

Ruby on Rails

REST APIs

Distributed systems

Observability

CI/CD

Mentoring

Architecture

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Block, in the Bay Area, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Employee Experience Engineering (EXE). You will design, build, and operate internal applications and services that improve the employee journey from hiring through ongoing access to corporate systems.

You’ll own end-to-end delivery, collaborate across teams, and help shape technical direction in a fast-paced, security-focused environment. The role requires strong full-stack capabilities, experience with React and Rails, API