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This role pays more than
99%
of similar roles. Most pay
$148,875–$186,225
— the blue band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$272k
versus about
$168k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$217,800–$326,800
across 40 roles with salary data.
Careers - Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience
As a Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience, you will join the team responsible for optimizing the codebase and workflows for both human developers and AI agents. You will manage the developer experience within large monorepos by leading framework migrations, language updates, and dependency management. Your daily work involves identifying friction like slow builds or flaky tests, improving CI performance, and designing agentic loops for automated engineering tasks. You will utilize tools such as Bazel, Buck, Pants, Nx, or Gradle, while applying skills in codemods, AST-based tooling, and LLM-based coding integrations. This role solves the technical challenge of maintaining a large, evolving codebase by building guardrails, automation, and infrastructure that ensure safe, large-scale changes across the entire engineering organization.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.
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