Senior Software Engineer — Employee Experience Engineering (EXE)
Block (Square) · Bay Area, CA, United States of America
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## Senior Software Engineer — Employee Experience Engineering (EXE) ### About the team Employee Experience Engineering (EXE) is part of Block’s Corporate Engineering organization. We build and operate the engineering platforms, services, and integrations that improve the employee experience—supporting the employee journey from hiring and onboarding through ongoing access to corporate services. ### The Role — You Will - Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable internal applications, platforms, and backend services. - Develop features and automated workflows that improve the employee experience across hiring, onboarding, and ongoing access to corporate services. - Build and maintain APIs and integrations connecting internal platforms, enterprise applications, and third-party services. - Own software solutions end-to-end—from technical design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and ongoing support. - Collaborate with Product, Design, Corporate Engineering, People Technology, Security, and other cross-functional teams to translate business needs into technical solutions. - Provide technical leadership through architecture discussions, code reviews, mentoring, and engineering best practices. - Improve application performance, reliability, observability, and maintainability. - Contribute to technical roadmaps, architectural decisions, and long-term platform improvements. - Explore emerging technologies, including AI-powered capabilities, to improve employee workflows and engineering productivity. ### You Have - 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production applications. - Strong full-stack development experience with modern frontend and backend technologies. - Experience with React, Ruby on Rails, or comparable frameworks. - Experience designing, developing, and integrating RESTful APIs and backend services. - Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL. - Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, data structures, and engineering fundamentals. - Experience with distributed systems, service reliability, and observability. - Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and production monitoring. - Ability to independently drive complex technical projects and collaborate across engineering teams. - Strong communication skills, customer empathy, and a passion for delivering excellent employee experiences. ### Nice to Have - Experience building internal enterprise applications or employee-facing platforms. - Experience integrating HR, identity, access management, or other enterprise systems. - Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS. - Experience with authentication, authorization, and secure API integrations. - Experience automating employee lifecycle workflows (hiring, onboarding, access provisioning). - Experience with AI-assisted development or integrating AI capabilities into applications. - Experience improving developer productivity, engineering workflows, or internal platforms. ### Why Join EXE? Build software that directly improves how employees experience Block—from their first interaction through their everyday work. You’ll work across the full technical stack, collaborate with engineering and business teams, influence technical direction, and help shape the platforms and services that power the employee experience. ### Application Guidelines - Candidates may submit up to 9 active applicati
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