Block's Compliance Engineering team builds high-scale analysis and visualizations systems 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. The Tooling Engineering team builds robust and user-friendly tools to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of Block's Compliance operations.
Requirements
- Experience working on distributed systems that require data consistency and high availability at scale
- Proficiency in Kotlin, Java, or other object-oriented programming languages
- Experience building user-facing tools
- Experience contributing to system migrations or modernizations
- Experience collaborating directly with stakeholder teams
- Kotlin, Protocol Buffers, GraphQL, Typescript and React
- Event-driven and microservice architectures
- Both relational and garden-variety wide column NoSQL databases
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Compliance and Product Development teams to design and implement workflows for Block's Compliance programs
- Create amazing data exploration and criminal case management tools for Block's Compliance organization
- Write and deploy code across all of Block's ever-evolving architecture
- Develop and support our tools as products, with a focus on elegant solutions, usability, and our customer needs
- Build our own platform of services and data pipelines, architected for scale
- Design to anticipate the future
Other
- Relevant Bachelor's degree (or equivalent practical experience)
- 8 years of relevant industry (or additional academic) experience
- An iterative approach to developing MVPs and shipping quickly
