Responsibilities
- Partner closely with credit risk, legal & compliance, product managers and other engineers to take the Lending capability to the next level.
- Lead or contribute to projects from hypothesis to production capability, ensuring ownership of the output quality.
- Build financial primitives by acting as an IC or lead on atomic, composable, API-level building blocks that serve the Block's intelligence layer.
- Take a developer-centric approach to designing and building clean APIs, optimizing strictly for uptime, latency, regulatory compliance, and cost-per-transaction.
- Experiment with emerging approaches and support team capability by sharing learnings and providing feedback.
- Operate and manage existing Cash services.
- Make recommendations to improve the team and wider Engineering practices.
- Help interview candidates, organize external recruiting/networking activities, and contribute to the broader tech and open-source communities.
Requirements
- Embrace an AI-first mentality. Leverage AI to augment your knowledge and capability in navigating development in complex systems with confidence.
- Familiar with agentic engineering.
- 5+ years working on complex systems and delivering quality software, with clear expertise developed in one or more technical areas.
- Curiosity that pushes you to find flaws in complex systems and take whatever steps are necessary to fix them.
- Resilience to persevere in complex situations across multiple axes: e.g., scale, uncertainty, and interconnectedness.
- Self-directed and comfortable with ambiguity, with a willingness to publish your reasoning and be wrong publicly—which is essential for thriving in our transparent DRI/IC model.
