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Software Engineer, Financial Platform - Issuing

Block· 10414 Engineering - Fintech Platform
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Melbournefull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Software engineer on the Issuing server engineering team at Block, building and operating the card issuing platform powering Cash App Card, Square Card, and upcoming programs. End-to-end ownership of features from design to run, operating at massive scale with real-time processing, in a microservices/event-driven architecture.

Responsibilities

  • Partner closely with your team to design, develop, test, ship, and maintain features across card issuance, transaction processing, and disputes
  • Write high-quality, well-tested code, and participate actively in design reviews and code reviews
  • Design and implement systems that work within our microservice and event-driven architectures, with the reliability and correctness that moving money demands
  • Participate in operational ownership of tier-0 financial systems, including on-call, incident response, and postmortems
  • Demonstrate AI fluency by leveraging AI-powered tools throughout the development lifecycle to improve velocity and quality, while applying sound judgment in their use
  • Hold your teammates — and yourself — to high engineering standards
  • Learn from and support other engineers through code reviews and technical discussions

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of software development or equivalent experience
  • Experience building and maintaining production software systems, and delivering well-scoped projects or features end-to-end (design, build, test, ship, operate) with guidance from more experienced engineers
  • Drive to find flaws in a system with many moving parts and take whatever steps are necessary to fix them
  • A growth mindset and an appetite for solving open-ended and ambiguous problems
  • Demonstrated AI fluency, including experience using AI-powered developer tools and the ability to critically evaluate and responsibly apply their outputs
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience

Skills

Required:Software developmentSystem designCode reviewsOperational ownershipAI fluency

Benefits

  • Remote work
  • medical insurance
  • flexible time off
  • retirement savings plans
  • modern family planning
  • additional benefits described on Block benefits page
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Block

Block builds technology to increase access to the global economy.

Made up of Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey, and Proto, Block, Inc. builds technology to increase access to the global economy.

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