Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Risk) job in Seattle, WA...

Company Description

Job Description

The Risk & Data Science engineering team at Afterpay works on building new and important experiences for customers. These experiences tend to associate and coordinate multiple domain areas and teams with a potential large impact on the business. As a Senior Engineer on the team, you will be responsible for bringing these experiences from vision to reality.
We are much more than our job descriptions, but here’s where you will begin….

• Responsible for designing, building, and owning highly available services and infrastructure that manages Afterpay’s financial risk.


• Collaborate with product managers, data analysts, data scientists on planning and implementing frictionless user experiences of product features through microservices, APIs, web-apps.


• Own features and functions throughout their lifecycle from inception, rollout, launch, scale and iteration.

Qualifications

Who are you?
Like us, you’ll be deeply committed to delivering positive outcomes for customers and passionate about shaping the future of Afterpay.
Qualifications

• BA/MS/PhD in computer science or a related field.


• Experience in architecturing large scale distributed systems.


• 8+ years of experience in building and maintaining applications that utilize a modern programming language, at least one of Java, Kotlin, Golang and Python, with significant leadership exposure.


• Experience in and passion for mentoring & coaching junior developers within teams.


• Enthusiastic about solving business problems with technology and can take ownership of an end-to-end solution.


• Possess an execution mindset and the ability to deliver with cross-functional teams that are globally distributed.

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, 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:

• 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.