2 months ago
Base Salary
$121k - $213k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own small, well-bounded projects end to end, including requirements clarification, design, development, testing, shipping, and follow-up.
- Build and maintain ingestion and reconciliation pipeline features that match card-network and partner reports against internal transaction data.
- Contribute to tooling for end-to-end traceability of money across the system.
- Develop accurate, reliable, timely, scalable, and user-friendly reporting and reconciliation features for finance teams and merchants.
- Produce standardized journals and summaries for downstream accounting, audit, and analysis.
- Contribute to US IRS information-return systems, including the 1099 family, and international reporting such as EU CESOP and country-specific reporting for Australia, Ireland, and Spain.
- Support AML, KYC, TIN validation, secure form generation and filing, and other regulatory and compliance obligations involving sensitive and PII data.
- Validate work through code review, tests, experiments, usage signals, and additional validation of AI-assisted changes.
- Debug and escalate production issues across services while documenting changes, timing, implementation, and remaining risks.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, data analysts, and finance, tax, and compliance partners on technical design and product decisions.
- Review peers' work, incorporate feedback, document learnings, and improve systems through automation when appropriate.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software or data engineering experience.
- A bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics, or equivalent technical experience.
- Experience building or maintaining batch- or event-driven data pipelines and exposure to workflow orchestration technologies such as Airflow, Temporal, or Spark.
- Working understanding of distributed systems and proficiency in at least one major programming language, such as Java, Python, or Go, plus solid SQL skills.
- Experience delivering well-scoped projects or features through design, build, test, ship, and operate stages with guidance from more experienced engineers.
- Strong communication skills, including surfacing concerns with concrete proposals and providing clear debugging and escalation context.
- Care for maintainable and testable code, code review, CI/CD, and observability in a complex financial environment.
- Proficiency with AI tools throughout the software development lifecycle and judgment to validate their output.
- Preferred exposure to financial, tax, regulatory, or payments reporting and reconciliation products.
- Preferred familiarity with merchants, acquirers, card networks, issuers, processors, authorization, clearing, settlement, card-network settlement file formats, or ISO-8583.
- Preferred understanding of accounting principles, double-entry bookkeeping, and financial reconciliation processes.
- Preferred experience with cloud data warehouses, distributed data systems, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code.
Benefits
- Remote work
- Medical insurance
- Flexible time off
- Retirement savings plans
- Modern family planning benefits
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowApache HadoopApache KafkaApache SparkAWSGoGoogle BigQueryJavaKubernetesPythonSnowflakeSQLTerraform
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Block
Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.