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Data Scientist, Payments

Block· 10418 Engineering - Data & Data Science
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Hybrid (Bay Area)$111.7k - $167.5kfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Quantitative, AI-fluent data science role focused on payments data across Square and Cash App, partnering with Product, Operations, Finance, and Engineering to optimize the payments platform and contribute to horizontal data org initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Leverage AI to create scalable data tools, agents, and automations
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations teams to systemize and make data-driven decisions
  • Measure and optimize the cost and performance of our payments stack
  • Serve as a subject-matter expert on our payments business and implementation
  • Proactively identify gaps and opportunities in our processes
  • Design, run, and analyze experiments
  • Independently research questions and produce actionable insights
  • Build ETL pipelines, dashboards, and machine learning models
  • Translate open-ended business needs into practical data solutions
  • Design, implement, and maintain data systems and system architecture
  • Stand up, maintain, and improve cloud data infrastructure and tooling
  • Operationalize data processes and systems

Qualifications

  • A bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field with a strong academic record
  • Experience working with code at an internship
  • Experience working with large datasets using code, including SQL and Python
  • Experience using AI tools to accelerate development, improve data workflows, and automate processes
  • Strong analytical expertise and business acumen
  • Strong ability to communicate with non-technical partners
  • Knowledge of systems architecture and cloud infrastructure
  • Bonus: experience with payments or banking

Skills

Required:SQLPythonAI toolsCommunication
Nice to have:Data visualization

Benefits

  • Remote work
  • medical insurance
  • flexible time off
  • retirement savings plans
  • modern family planning
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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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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