Job Description
As the founding Engineering Manager on this team, you’ll play a pivotal role in hiring and building out your team and laying down the foundation for successful collaboration and execution. You’ll be expected to lead the technical direction for the team and work across the company to get dependencies aligned and critical pieces of functionality built. You’ll also be working closely with cross-functional peers in Product and Design to iterate on an MVP and ensure we’re building the right set of features for launch. This is a greenfield opportunity to build and launch a product from the ground up!
In this role you will:
Build an excellent team by hiring remarkable talent, coaching your team, fostering engineering decision-making, and applying your technical expertise to maintain a high bar
Collaborate with your cross-functional peers (PM, Design) to guide the product development process and help ensure we are building the right things at the right time
Oversee the success of your team's product and achieve quantifiable results
Report into a Senior Manager on the team and participate in essential technical, design, and product discussions with leaders across our product and operations teams
Qualifications
BA/BS degree in computer science or equivalent industry experience (8+ years preferred)
2+ years experience directly managing engineers (including feedback, performance, hiring, and career guidance)
Technical background in building or maintaining products at scale
Experience collaborating with engineering leaders and cross-functional team members
Technologies we use and/or consider relevant for this role:
Languages: Ruby, Java
Frameworks: Rails, RSpec, Sidekiq, protobuf, gRPC
Infrastructure: MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Terraform, Envoy
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 ourI+D page. Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.
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, veteran status, 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, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
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.