Senior Software Engineer, Risk Engineering

Remote - Canada Full Time Senior

Published on September 04, 2024

Across our ecosystem, we’re working to help our diverse audiences — sellers, individuals, artists, fans, developers, and all the people in between — overcome barriers to access the economy.

Job Description

Risk Engineering works to protect Square and our customers from financial and reputational harm. We build systems to detect and respond to potential threats, provide Risk controls over the Square platform feature set, and give our sellers seamless experiences to navigate through risk. Our mission is to protect Square, protect our customers, and make a complicated and sometimes painful process understandable to all.
Risk Engineering is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us build solutions that further these goals. You will collaborate with teams across the company on new product and market launches to protect from harm and make realtime data available for scalable ML-based risk decisioning. Help us solve these challenging problems and protect our sellers!
You Will:
  • Work with teams and roles across Square to develop new capabilities and enhance existing systems to provide risk controls
  • Develop essential tooling to act quickly on potential fraud
  • Design fault-tolerant systems so the team can be brave, move fast, and break things, without ever showing a negative impact to customers
  • Advocate and model engineering best practices Guide other engineers

Qualifications

You Have:
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience Interest in working full-stack across multiple technical domains
  • Experience building products end to end - technical design, implementation, testing, launch, and maintenance
  • Metrics-oriented mindset: you want your work to be measurable and impactful Comfortable working with a globally distributed team of engineers, data scientists, product managers, and risk experts
  • Technologies we use and teach: Java, Guice, Amazon Web Services Go, Ruby on Rails, Ember, React, GraphQL Protocol Buffers MySQL, Hibernate, jOOQ

Additional Information

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United States and Canada EEOC Statement
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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