Summary

The 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 focused on Bitcoin compliance within the Screening Engineering team, which screens individuals and transactions against known bad actor lists.

You Will

1. Work closely with compliance partners to build scalable Bitcoin compliance solutions to aid investigations and automation efforts
2. Partner closely with product teams to build robust controls to mitigate risk to our Bitcoin focused offerings
3. Write and deploy code across all of Block's ever-evolving architecture
4. Develop and support our tools with a focus on fast developer experience and empowering partner team participation
5. Help shape and influence our roadmap to scale our solutions for the future

About You

1. Excited to work on fintech, machine learning, crypto, or preventing financial crimes
2. Enjoy directly collaborating with stakeholder teams
3. Are not afraid of ambiguity and enjoy working alongside others to refine requirements
4. Have an iterative approach to MVPs and shipping

You Have

1. 7+ years of industry experience or equivalent doing backend software development
2. Kotlin, Java, or other object oriented software development experience
3. Experience with large scale data

Technologies We Use and Teach

1. Kotlin, Protocol Buffers, Typescript, AWS
2. Event-driven and microservice architectures
3. Both relational and garden variety wide column NoSQL databases

Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

To find a location’s zone designation, please refer to this resource. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information. 

Zone A:

$217,800—$326,800 USD

Zone B:

$207,000—$310,400 USD

Zone C:

$196,100—$294,100 USD

Zone D:

$185,200—$277,800 USD

Skills

• AWS
• Database Management
• Development
• Java
• Software Engineering
• SQL
• TypeScript