Senior Software Engineer, Financial Crimes Technology

Company DescriptionBlock is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.Job DescriptionThe Compliance Engineering team builds high-scale analysis and visualizations systems in order to find and stop criminal activity and other bad behavior in billions of dollars of person to person, merchant, and Bitcoin transactions across the globe. We design solutions and ship code with the customer-centric focus of a product organization, serving Block Compliance's financial crimes operations. Preventing known bad agents from interacting on our service reduces the chance that they negatively impact our users and upend their lives, feeding into Block's mission to bring economic empowerment to all. This role is for the Audit Engineering team, which builds tools to help us verify both Cash and Square products are doing the necessary steps to prevent known bad agents from their platforms.You Will:Work with Cash App and Square feature teams and support launches by building tooling to expose misuse by bad actorsCreate amazing data exploration and criminal case management tools for Block's Compliance organizationWrite and deploy code across all of Block's ever-evolving architectureDevelop and support our tools as products, with a focus on elegant solutions, usability, and our customer needsBuild our own platform of services and data pipelines, architected for scaleDesign to anticipate the futureQualificationsAbout You:Excited to work on fintech, machine learning, or preventing financial crimesEnjoy directly collaborating with stakeholder teamsHave an iterative approach to MVPs and shippingTechnologies we use and teach:KotlinEvent-driven and microservice architecturesBoth relational and garden variety wide column NoSQL databasesYou have:5+ years of industry experience or equivalent doing full stack software developmentKotlin, Java, or object oriented software development experienceExperience with observability, data engineering, or metric development at scale.Worked on distributed systems where data consistency at scale is required

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