US Job Posting Template

📋 Description

• Design, build, maintain, and scale customer-facing payment APIs with clear contracts, predictable
• Lead complex projects end to end: clarify requirements, evaluate trade-offs, plan incremental
• Operate critical payment systems serving worldwide traffic. Participate in the team's on-call
• Improve performance, observability, fault tolerance, and security. Use automation to reduce
• Work with product and engineering partners across Block to turn payment requirements into reusable
• Use AI-assisted tools for design, implementation, testing, and debugging. Critically evaluate their

🎯 Requirements

• Experience building, maintaining, and scaling customer-facing financial or payment APIs, together
• Experience designing and operating high-volume, highly available distributed systems where
• An understanding of payment API concerns such as idempotency, retries, asynchronous processing
• A record of leading complex engineering projects from unclear requirements through production
• Experience diagnosing production issues and improving systems through monitoring, incident
• Fluency with AI-assisted engineering tools and the judgment to validate generated code, protect

🎁 Benefits

• Immediate consideration
• Collaborative team
• Modern company perks