Block
Software Engineer, Justice Engineering
About this role
Block's Justice Engineering team seeks a full-stack software engineer to design and maintain systems that automate legal request handling, including subpoena processing, data assembly, and account management. You'll work across backend services, internal tools, and data pipelines while collaborating with legal and compliance teams to translate regulatory requirements into reliable, automated workflows.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, test, and ship features that automate Block's response to legal and regulatory requests
- Build and maintain production microservices and event-driven systems handling sensitive customer data
- Develop internal web tools and integrate them with upstream systems across Block
- Translate legal and compliance requirements into concrete automated workflows with Counsel and Operations teams
- Participate in operational ownership including on-call, incident response, and postmortems
- Modernize and reduce toil in existing services while maintaining reliability and data integrity
What they're looking for
- Full-stack software development (backend services and frontend interfaces)
- Microservice and event-driven architecture design
- Ruby on Rails, Java, Kotlin, or similar backend languages
- React and TypeScript for frontend development
- AWS cloud infrastructure and databases (MySQL, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis)
- Kafka and asynchronous messaging systems
- Handling sensitive data (PII, PCI) with security and privacy best practices
- AI-powered developer tools and LLM integration
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Block
Block builds financial infrastructure and lending platforms powering multiple brands including Cash App and Afterpay, along with bitcoin mining hardware through its Proto division. The company is hiring Software Engineers, Backend Infrastructure specialists, Product & Test Engineers, and Legal Systems Engineers to scale payments, lending systems, mining ASICs, and legal technology operations.
- Website
- block.xyz
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through a feature you shipped end-to-end—from design through operation—and how you handled complexity in any one phase.
- Describe your experience working with sensitive or regulated data. What practices did you implement to ensure correctness and security?