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Engineering Manager - Finance & Supply Chain Engineering

Block· 10416 Engineering - Business Platform
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Bay Area, CA$180k - $270kFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Engineering Manager leading a greenfield team within Block’s Finance & Supply Chain Engineering, building mission-critical systems to automate financial operations, improve reporting, compliance, and decision-making across Block’s portfolio.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow an engineering team: Manage, coach, and develop engineers across a range of experience levels; create clarity, accountability, and growth opportunities for the team.
  • Shape a greenfield platform: Help define the foundations for a new generation of financial and supply chain systems, including the team’s operating model, technical patterns, delivery practices, and long-term architecture.
  • Build agentic systems that run the business: Lead the development of intelligent, automated systems that streamline financial operations, coordinate business workflows, improve decision-making, and reduce manual operational burden.
  • Set technical direction: Partner with engineering leads and cross-functional stakeholders to define architecture, roadmap, and execution plans for financial and supply chain systems.
  • Drive execution: Translate ambiguous business needs into clear technical priorities, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
  • Partner cross-functionally: Work closely with Finance, Accounting, Tax, Compliance, Product, and Operations teams to understand business processes and build systems that support critical workflows.
  • Ensure reliability and operational excellence: Hold the team accountable for building well-tested, observable, secure, and resilient systems that support high-stakes financial operations.
  • Navigate complexity: Help the team make pragmatic decisions across legacy systems, integrations, data pipelines, regulatory requirements, agentic workflows, and evolving business needs.
  • Build engineering culture: Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-ownership team environment with strong engineering practices, healthy code review, documentation, and incident learning.
  • Develop people and leaders: Provide coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development for engineers; identify and grow future technical leaders.

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years of experience leading or managing engineers.
  • Experience serving in a technical leadership role with responsibility for delivery, execution, and team health.
  • Strong technical judgment and the ability to guide architecture and design decisions across distributed systems, data-intensive applications, automation platforms, or business-critical systems.
  • Interest in building intelligent or agentic systems that automate complex workflows, improve decision-making, and help teams operate more effectively.
  • Experience partnering with non-technical stakeholders and translating complex business requirements into clear engineering priorities.
  • A track record of delivering reliable, well-tested, and maintainable systems in production.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to create alignment across engineering, product, finance, compliance, and operations teams.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous domains where business process, regulatory requirements, and technical systems intersect.
  • A strong desire to build healthy teams, grow engineers, influence culture, and shape strategy from early-stage ideas through implementation.

Skills

Required:Leadership and people managementTechnical strategy and architectureStakeholder partnershipDelivery and execution
Nice to have:Agentic/ Intelligent systems

Benefits

  • Remote work
  • medical insurance
  • flexible time off
  • retirement savings plans
  • modern family planning
Last updated Oct 21, 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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