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About Block
Block, Inc. (formerly Square) is a financial technology company operating the Square merchant payments ecosystem, Cash App peer-to-peer payments, TIDAL music streaming, and Bitcoin-focused financial services. Industry: Financial Technology & Payments
Block currently has
41 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$217,800–$326,800
across 40 roles with salary data.
Careers - Engineering Manager - Finance & Supply Chain Engineering joins the Business Platform Engineering organization to lead a team building mission-critical financial and supply chain infrastructure. This role involves shaping a greenfield platform from the ground up, focusing on Record-to-Report automation, financial planning, tax reporting, and supply chain execution. You will build agentic systems that automate workflows, reason across operational data, and improve decision-making. Key responsibilities include managing engineers, defining technical strategy, and ensuring operational excellence across distributed systems. The role requires expertise in Go, Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, React, MySQL, Snowflake, AWS, S3, Aurora, Docker, Temporal, Prefect, RSpec, Vitest, Datadog, Sentry, HTTP, and JSON. You will solve complex problems involving legacy integrations, data pipelines, and regulatory requirements to support high-stakes financial operations.
What does a Engineering Manager earn in California?
Median $279400 from 84 postings across 24 companies.
Manage, coach, and develop a high-performing engineering team across various experience levels.
Define the foundations for a new generation of financial and supply chain systems.
Lead the development of intelligent, automated agentic systems to streamline business workflows.
Set the technical direction, architecture, and roadmap for mission-critical financial platforms.
Translate ambiguous business needs into clear technical priorities and measurable delivery plans.
Partner with Finance, Accounting, Tax, Compliance, and Operations teams to support critical workflows.
Ensure the delivery of reliable, secure, and observable systems for high-stakes financial operations.
Foster a collaborative engineering culture with strong practices for code review and incident learning.
What we're looking for
12+ years of software engineering experience.
4+ years of experience leading or managing engineers.
Experience serving in a technical leadership role with responsibility for delivery, execution, and team health.
Strong technical judgment to guide architecture and design decisions across distributed systems, data-intensive applications, or business-critical systems.
Experience partnering with non-technical stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into engineering priorities.
Track record of delivering reliable, well-tested, and maintainable systems in production.
Strong communication skills to create alignment across engineering, product, finance, compliance, and operations teams.
Familiarity with modern application, data, automation, and infrastructure patterns (preferred).
Agentic AI
GenAI
RAG
Knowledge Graphs
Cloud-native Architecture
Distributed Systems
APIs
Data Platforms
Model Lifecycle Management
Evaluation Frameworks
Model Governance
Observability
Platform Engineering