Since we first opened our doors in 2009, the world of commerce has evolved immensely – and so has Block. After enabling anyone to take a payment and never miss a sale, we saw sellers stymied by disparate, outmoded products and tools that wouldn’t work together. So we expanded into software and started building integrated, omnichannel solutions – to help sellers sell online, manage inventory, run a busy kitchen, book appointments, engage loyal buyers, and hire and pay staff. And across it all, we’ve embedded financial services tools at the point of sale, so merchants can access a business loan and manage their cash flow all in one place.

Today, we’re a partner to sellers of all sizes – large, enterprise-scale businesses with complex commerce operations, sellers just starting out, as well as merchants who began selling with Block and have grown larger over time. As our sellers scale, so do our solutions. We all grow together.

There is a massive opportunity in front of us. We’re building a business that is big, meaningful, and lasting. And we are helping sellers around the world do the same.

Square’s rapidly growing financing platform, Square Banking Credit, has revolutionized the way businesses and consumers obtain the funding needed to achieve their goals. Unlike traditional business financing products, Square Banking Credit offers are extended to pre-qualified sellers with no application process, funds are deposited as soon as the next business day, and repayment happens as a fixed percentage of daily card sales. Since the product launched in 2014, Square Banking Credit has extended more than $9 billion to hundreds of thousands of sellers.

As a software engineer on the Banking Credit Inventory Team, you will help us grow and expand access to Credit for our Square sellers. You will be responsible for designing, building and owning sophisticated underwriting services leveraging data and machine learning technologies to power our lending products. You will primarily work on our backend systems and at times contribute to our frontend as well.

You will:

• Work closely with product, data science, and other engineering teams to unlock new ways of underwriting customers, which includes improvements to our machine learning capabilities, new data sources, and much more

• Collaborate with other engineering teams on exciting new initiatives and products

• Modernize our entire underwriting process to be cloud-first and scale to meet Square's growth needs for years into the future

• Build well-designed, reusable systems to model customer data, credit review procedures, and borrower experiences

• Build systems that collect and maintain customers confidential data, while holding Square to the highest standards for security and compliance

• Learn and experiment with new technologies

• Leverage strong communication skills to drive technical and business decisions

• Participate in ongoing training to maintain current knowledge of BSA/AML and perform BSA/AML duties as required by job function

You have:

• 2+ years of software engineering experience

• Strong software development skills and computer science fundamentals

• Interest in building modern, scalable architectures using AWS technologies, including DynamoDB, SQS, Lambdas, Step Functions, etc.

• Interest in working on back-end systems, from APIs and business logic to optimizing databases, streams, and software engines

• Interest in working on frontend interfaces using Javascript and React

• Interest in modeling complex domains and building resilient systems to support real world applications

• Interest in working with other engineering teams and cross-functional partners

• Bonus: Prior experience working in lending, underwriting, or risk management.

Tools we use and teach:

• AWS

• Go

• Ruby on Rails

• Terraform

• ES6 & TypeScript

• React

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 a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. 

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. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page. 

Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

Perks

We want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:

• Healthcare coverage
• Retirement Plans
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Wellness perks
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off
• Learning and Development resources

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.