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Senior Software Engineer, Square Financial Services

Senior engineer building and operating core banking platform features, public APIs, and financial tooling on AWS with Kotlin. Requires 5+ years experience and a bachelor's degree.

185k – 327k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

You Will

  • Design and build new features into our banking platform that meet the diverse needs of Block's broad portfolio of products and services
  • Partner with engineering teams across Block to help onboard their products to SFS
  • Build systems that operate on our customers' most sensitive data, while holding Square to the highest standards for security and compliance
  • Design fault tolerant systems so the team can be brave and move fast, without ever negatively affecting our customers
  • Ensure the continued operation of our critical services, remediate any problems that occur, and design durable fixes so that they don't happen again

You Have

  • 5 or more years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's Degree
  • Hands-on skills building software products or services in the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
  • A track record of building software that is easy to observe and operate
  • A strong sense of customer empathy and a drive to ship software that improves their lives
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Proficiency building products and services using AWS
  • Proficiency with Kotlin
  • Experience building public APIs
  • Experience building tools for finance operations

Technologies We Use and Teach

  • Kotlin/Java, Go
  • TypeScript, React, PhantomJS
  • Temporal.io, Kubernetes, AWS Fargate + ECS
  • AWS Aurora and DynamoDB
  • Swagger, Protocol Buffers, gRPC, REST
  • Unit Tests, Continuous Integration, and other methods of quality assurance

Skills

AWSKotlinJavaGoTypeScriptReactKubernetesAws FargateAws EcsAws AuroraDynamoDBSwaggerProtocol BuffersgRPCRest
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