Engineering Manager - Finance & Supply Chain Engineering
Block (Square) · Bay Area, CA, United States of America
About this role
**Engineering Manager — Finance & Supply Chain Engineering** Block is one company built from many teams, united by the purpose of economic empowerment. The foundational teams across Block—People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more—support and guide the business globally to build inclusive policies, forecast finances, provide legal counsel, safeguard systems, and nurture new initiatives. --- ## The Role Block’s Business Platform Engineering organization powers foundational systems that support financial operations across Square, Cash App, TIDAL, and Proto. You’ll help build the next generation of financial and supply chain infrastructure that enables accurate reporting, operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and strategic decision-making. As an **Engineering Manager in Finance & Supply Chain Engineering**, you will lead a team of engineers building mission-critical systems across: - Record-to-Report automation - Financial planning and forecasting - Tax and regulatory reporting - Supply chain planning and execution This is a unique opportunity to shape a **mostly greenfield** team and platform from the ground up, including building **agentic systems** that automate workflows, reason across financial and operational data, assist decision-making, and improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability. You’ll influence the full spectrum: team culture, engineering practices, technical strategy, product direction, architecture, and implementation. You’ll be responsible for building and supporting a high-performing engineering team and ensuring delivery of reliable, scalable, and well-governed systems. --- ## You Will - **Lead and grow an engineering team**: manage, coach, and develop engineers; create clarity, accountability, and growth opportunities. - **Shape a greenfield platform**: define operating model, technical patterns, delivery practices, and long-term architecture. - **Build agentic systems that run the business**: develop intelligent automation to streamline financial operations and reduce manual burden. - **Set technical direction**: partner with engineering leads and cross-functional stakeholders on architecture, roadmap, and execution. - **Drive execution**: translate ambiguous business needs into clear technical priorities, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes. - **Partner cross-functionally**: work with Finance, Accounting, Tax, Compliance, Product, and Operations to support critical workflows. - **Ensure reliability and operational excellence**: build well-tested, observable, secure, resilient systems for high-stakes financial operations. - **Navigate complexity**: make pragmatic decisions across legacy systems, integrations, data pipelines, regulatory requirements, and evolving business needs. - **Build engineering culture**: foster collaboration, inclusion, high ownership, strong code review, documentation, and incident learning. - **Develop people and leaders**: coaching, feedback, performance management, career development, and growing future technical leaders. --- ## You Have - **12+ years** of software engineering experience, including **4+ years** leading/managing engineers. - Experience in a **technical leadership** role with responsibility for delivery, execution, and team health. - Strong technical judgment and ability to guide architecture/design across distributed systems, data-intensive applications, automation platforms, or business-
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