Staff Payments Acquiring Engineer — Scale Card Networks

Block; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 264,000 - 395,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Medical insurance

Retirement savings plans

Job summary

Block seeks a Staff Software Engineer for the Acquiring team to advance card payments and direct network connections. You will lead critical projects, implement reliable payment flows, and collaborate with multiple businesses to scale acquiring capabilities.

Role requires hands-on coding, debugging at the protocol level, and mentoring engineers while maintaining high availability across time zones.

Qualifications

• Deep card payments experience at the message level, including network, acquirer, and processor work.
• Experience with ISO 8583, mandates, and card network rules.
• Strong software engineering background for reliable, scalable payments systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of projects from design through production rollout.
• Write production code and build testing/certification tooling.
• Lead engineers and communicate across product/finance partners.

Skills

Card payments depth

ISO 8583

Network integrations

Design and delivery leadership

On-call reliability practices

AI integration awareness

Job description

Block seeks a Staff Software Engineer for the Acquiring team to advance card payments and direct network connections. You will lead critical projects, implement reliable payment flows, and collaborate with multiple businesses to scale acquiring capabilities.

Role requires hands-on coding, debugging at the protocol level, and mentoring engineers while maintaining high availability across time zones.