Senior Software Engineer, Trust (Safeguards)

Block, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 217,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Trust team, focusing on building essential platform infrastructure. This role involves collaborating with product managers, designers, and engineers to create scalable solutions that ensure the safety and security of millions of customers. With a commitment to economic empowerment, this position offers the chance to work in a dynamic environment where creativity and collaboration are encouraged. If you have a passion for problem-solving and a growth mindset, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in the financial services landscape.

Benefits

Remote Work

Medical Insurance

Flexible Time Off

Retirement Savings Plans

Modern Family Planning

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in building and operating highly available services.
• Strong technical leadership and mentoring capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Partner with teams to design and launch new features for product controls.
• Lead technical discussions and mentor fellow engineers.

Skills

Collaboration Skills

Customer Empathy

Growth Mindset

Problem-Solving

Tools

Kotlin

Java

DynamoDB

MySQL

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Trust (Safeguards)

Remote

Seattle, WA, US

Posted Date: 04/23/25

Posted today

About Cash App

It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic ecosystem, developing unique financial products, including Afterpay/Clearpay, to provide a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our 50+ million monthly active customers. We want to redefine the world’s relationship with money to make it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible.

Today, Cash App has thousands of employees working globally across office and remote locations, with a culture geared toward innovation, collaboration and impact. We’ve been a distributed team since day one, and many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Cash App operates. No matter the location, we tailor our experience to ensure our employees are creative, productive, and happy.

The Role

On Cash App’s Safeguards team, we build essential platform infrastructure that protects millions of Cash App customers while ensuring fair and equitable access to financial services. We partner across engineering, product, and risk teams to build highly-available infrastructure that powers critical trust and safety decisions throughout Cash App's ecosystem. In this role, you'll implement scalable solutions that enable billions of safe customer interactions that create a holistic experience that fosters the trust, safety, security, and support of our customers and their assets, directly contributing to Block's mission of economic empowerment through accessible and secure financial services.

You Will

• Partner closely with product managers, designers, engineers, and business leads to scope, plan, design, build, and launch new features as well as maintain existing functionality of our product controls ecosystem.
• Lead and participate in critical technical, design, and product discussions with leaders across the organization and company.
• Leverage your experience and knowledge to grow your teammates’ technical breadth and depth through direct coaching and mentoring.

You Have

• 8+ years experience building and operating highly available services.
• Demonstrated experience leading large, cross-functional technical efforts.
• Strong collaboration skills and customer empathy.
• A growth mindset, and a healthy comfort with ambiguity.
• Well-developed curiosity and initiative to build creative solutions to complex problems.
• Contributed to the growth of fellow engineers through technical leadership and mentoring.

Technologies We Use and Teach

• Kotlin, Java
• DynamoDB, MySQL

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible.

Compensation

Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions.

Zone A: $217,800 — $326,800 USD

Zone B: $207,000 — $310,400 USD

Zone C: $196,100 — $294,100 USD

Zone D: $185,200 — $277,800 USD

Every benefit we offer is designed with one goal: empowering you to do the best work of your career while building the life you want. Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offerings.

Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy. Each of our brands unlocks different aspects of the economy for more people.