Software Engineer, Credit Risk

  • Full-time

Company Description

Since we first opened our doors in 2009, the world of commerce has evolved immensely – and so has Square. After enabling anyone to make 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 Square 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.

Job Description

The Credit Risk team’s mission is to empower sellers to advance their businesses while managing credit risk within reasonable levels. To do this we build tooling that allows our Operations team to manage credit risk in payment processing. We also build seamless and intuitive solutions for our sellers, leveraging Square’s systems, machine learning models, and industry expertise to enable visibility into changes on their account. We enable trust with sellers using data and predictive analytics to make credit risk decisions, while maintaining high touch, tailored experiences for our largest sellers.

As a Software Engineer on Credit Risk Upmarket, you will design, implement, and own the services and infrastructure that build this trust with the largest sellers at Square. You will build beautiful web applications, design high-availability services, and work with complex distributed systems. If you love delivering software that improves the lives of business owners, we want to work with you!

As a member of the team, you’ll:

  • Partner closely with product managers, designers, sales, machine learning engineers, and business leads to scope, plan, design, and build new features as well as maintain existing functionality.
  • Design systems to work with our microservice and event-driven architectures
  • Hold your teammates—and yourself—to high engineering standard
  • Build incrementally, test everything, and deploy daily
  • Have autonomy to research and achieve outcomes with support when you need it

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of industry engineering experience 
  • Interest in working full-stack across multiple technical domains, including backend microservices and internal/external user-facing tools
  • A sense of customer empathy (both external and internal) and the desire to influence product direction
  • Data-oriented mindset: you want your work to be measurable and impactful
  • Interest in working in a modern development environment using the latest DevOps technologies
  • Software development skills and computer science fundamentals

Skills

  • Java
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Javascript, Ember, React, Sass, and other web-app frameworks
  • MySQL
  • JUnit
  • Hibernate, Guice, GRPC

Additional Information

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.

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