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Block · 3 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Local Services

Bay Area, CA, United States of America

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

$264K/yr - $395K/yr

12+ years exp

Block, Inc. is a company that builds technology to increase access to the global economy, focusing on various financial services and commerce solutions. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Local Services team to define technical direction, drive architecture decisions, and mentor engineers while building reliable systems that improve scheduling, invoicing, and payments for service-based businesses.

Financial Services

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design, build, and evolve Square's Invoices, Appointments, and other Local Services products

Lead cross-team initiatives and set long-term technical direction

Solve complex performance, scalability, and reliability challenges

Balance system health, security, and technical debt with product needs

Mentor senior+ engineers and champion technical excellence across the team

Communicate trade-offs clearly and influence organizational priorities

Qualification

Large-scale distributed systemsObject-oriented programmingFull development lifecycleData-driven decision makingScheduling solutionsPayments solutionsInvoicing solutionsRubyJavaMySQLDynamoDBOpenSearchRedisProtocol BuffersGRPCKafkaTerraformKubernetesEnvoyAWS

Required

12+ years of software development experience

Expertise in large-scale distributed systems

Experience with at least one object-oriented programming language

Ability to make data-driven decisions in ambiguous environments

Full development lifecycle experience, from definition to delivery

Preferred

Experience delivering user-facing products at scale with high quality

Background in scheduling, payments, or invoicing solutions

Strong record of building business-critical products in commerce or services ecosystems

Benefits

Healthcare coverage (Medical, Vision and Dental insurance)

Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account

Retirement Plans including company match

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance

Paid parental and caregiving leave

Paid time off (including 12 paid holidays)

Paid sick leave (1 hour per 26 hours worked (max 80 hours per calendar year to the extent legally permissible) for non-exempt employees and covered by our Flexible Time Off policy for exempt employees)

Learning and Development resources

Paid Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits

Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning

Company

Block

Glassdoor3.9

Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment.

Founded in 1990

Oakland, California, US

10001+ employees

https://block.xyz/

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