Software Engineer, Finance Applications

About the 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.

The Role

The Financial Platform Eng team is part of Block’s platform engineering org, with a mandate to run the foundational financial technology infrastructure supporting all our brands. Our charter includes building scalable, reliable, and forward-looking financial infrastructure, from revenue streams to reconciliations to GL to street reporting. This team powers key business functions spanning the CFO org and aids at strategic decision-making.

As a Software Engineer, you'll design and build the backend services, integrations, and workflow engines that keep the foundational financial operations running. Often you will focus on transforming complex financial requirements into scalable technology solutions — with a specific emphasis on AI enablement. We are an AI-driven engineering team — we use agentic coding tools across our entire development lifecycle, from design exploration through implementation and review, and we expect every engineer to do the same.

Success in this role depends on strong collaboration with cross-functional partners including Accounting, FP&A, Tax, Procurement, Product, TPMs, Engineering, and Data teams. The ability to operate across these verticals while maintaining a horizontal architectural perspective is key to our impact.

You Will

- Build financial operations and reporting infrastructure — Design and implement backend services for Accounting, FP&A, Tax, Procurement while keeping the company compliant.

- Lead a platform migration — Architect the migration of business-critical workflows from legacy vendor platforms to Block's internal systems, ensuring zero disruption to agents and customers during cutover

- Design workflow and automation systems — Build configurable workflow engines, rules-based routing, and event-driven automations that reduce manual effort and scale across multiple business lines

- Own integrations end-to-end — Design, build, and maintain integrations between internal platforms and external systems ( middleware, workforce management, Oracle fusion, Salesforce etc) using APIs, event streams, and messaging patterns

- Partner across the business — Work directly with operations, compliance, and product stakeholders to translate complex financial and regulatory requirements into well-architected technical solutions

- Ensure compliance and data integrity — Build systems with audit trails, access controls, and data governance baked in — not bolted on — to meet regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions