This role pays more than
99%
of similar roles. Most pay
$141,400–$177,250
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$272k
versus about
$159k
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
43 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$217,800–$326,800
across 43 roles with salary data.
Careers - Software Engineer, Program Engineering joins the Compliance Program Engineering team to build core infrastructure supporting Block's compliance programs and dependent product teams. This full-stack role involves designing, building, and operating platforms for a unified transaction store and search, as well as systems for entity labeling, ingestion, and workflow. The engineer will develop self-serve tools and high-volume pipelines to help various business units manage sensitive financial data while meeting regulatory obligations. Key technologies include Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, Java, Kotlin, React, TypeScript, AWS, MySQL, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka, and Datadog. Candidates should possess experience in microservice and event-driven architectures, high-quality code production, and AI fluency using LLMs and agentic tools. The role solves critical business problems by providing durable, reusable platform capabilities to ensure investigators and automated systems can reliably act on transaction data.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 869 postings across 70 companies.