Backed by 500 Global.
About the role
Square Financial Services, Inc. (SFS) is Block’s bank. We opened in March 2021 and provide lending and FDIC-insured deposit products to individuals and small businesses on a nationwide basis. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Third-party risk management and business continuity experience
- 4+ years building production software in backend, platform, data, or software engineering
- Multi-year ownership of a production system, including on-call, SLOs, and the maintenance work that starts after launch
- Proficiency with at least one of Python, Kotlin, Java, or Go, and comfort reading unfamiliar codebases
- Hands-on experience building with LLMs (prompting, tool use, agents, or LLM-backed features) and opinions about where model judgment belongs and where it doesn't. Judgment matters more here than volume
- Experience with integration patterns: REST APIs, webhooks, authentication flows, event-driven architectures
More about this role
Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.
Square Financial Services, Inc. (SFS) is Block’s bank. We opened in March 2021 and provide lending and FDIC-insured deposit products to individuals and small businesses on a nationwide basis.
SFS Risk Management is scaling vendor security, third party risk, and business continuity through innovation. Our Risk team designs and promotes the frameworks, standards, and oversight that elevates security considerations among our vendors, simplifies our regulatory obligations, and ensures resilience in our business operations. The team also operates the...
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