# Staff Software Engineer, Payments Acquiring at Block

- Company: Block
- What the company does: Backed by 500 Global.
- Company website: https://blockblock.io
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Seattle, WA, United States of America
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-08
- Apply by: 2026-11-22
- Apply: http://block.xyz/careers/jobs/5447957008?gh_jid=5447957008&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/block-staff-software-engineer-payments-acquiring-2/

## About the role

At Block, we strive to build the best financial products in the world. The Financial Platform Acquiring team owns the acquiring side of card payments for Square, Cash App, and Afterpay. When someone pays with a card at a Square seller, through Afterpay, or uses a card to move money in or out of Cash App, our systems make sure that payment happens correctly, every time. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Experience with the hard cases in real card transactions, such as partial and incremental authorizations, reversals, tips, currency conversion, and interchange qualification
- Strong hands-on software engineering experience building and operating highly reliable financial or payments systems at scale, with solid habits in design review, automated testing, and safe, observable rollouts
- A track record of leading technically complex projects from design through delivery and setting technical direction for the engineers working on them
- Experience creating durable technical leverage — frameworks, standards, tooling, architecture, or practices that other engineers and teams adopt
- Daily experience building with AI coding agents, and good judgment about when their output is right
- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation for critical financial systems

Tags: Engineering - Fintech Platform

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