Job Description
The Credit Risk team’s mission is to empower sellers to advance their businesses by building tailored experiences to manage the credit risk in payment processing and ensure reciprocal growth. We build seamless and intuitive solutions for our sellers, leveraging Block’s systems, machine learning models, and industry expertise to enable trust that goes both ways. As a seller, trusting Block to have your back if things go wrong and as Block, trusting our sellers to run legitimate businesses that serve their customers.
As a Software Engineer on Credit Risk, you will design, implement, and own the services and infrastructure that build this trust. 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 will:
Partner closely with product managers, designers, machine learning engineers, and business leads to scope, plan, design, and build new features as well as maintain existing functionality.
Design systems to wo rk 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, Guice
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:
Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD54566975, 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. TBD54566975 is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.