Engineering Manager - Finance & Supply Chain Engineering
Bay Area, CA · US - CA - SoCal - Remote · 4+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 16, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 4+ years experience
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Bay Area, CA · US - CA - SoCal - Remote
About the role
- Block is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Finance & Supply Chain Engineering team, powering foundational systems that support financial operations across Square, Cash App, TIDAL, and Proto.
- This role involves leading a greenfield team and platform from the ground up, building intelligent and agentic systems that automate financial workflows, forecast finances, and ensure regulatory compliance.
- The manager will have influence across team culture, technical strategy, product direction, architecture, and cross-functional partnerships with Finance, Accounting, Tax, Compliance, and Operations.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow an engineering team: Manage, coach, and develop engineers across a range of experience levels; create clarity, accountability, and growth opportunities for the team.
- Shape a greenfield platform: Help define the foundations for a new generation of financial and supply chain systems, including the team’s operating model, technical patterns, delivery practices, and long-term architecture.
- Build agentic systems that run the business: Lead the development of intelligent, automated systems that streamline financial operations, coordinate business workflows, improve decision-making, and reduce manual operational burden.
- Set technical direction: Partner with engineering leads and cross-functional stakeholders to define architecture, roadmap, and execution plans for financial and supply chain systems.
- Drive execution: Translate ambiguous business needs into clear technical priorities, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
- Partner cross-functionally: Work closely with Finance, Accounting, Tax, Compliance, Product, and Operations teams to understand business processes and build systems that support critical workflows.
- Ensure reliability and operational excellence: Hold the team accountable for building well-tested, observable, secure, and resilient systems that support high-stakes financial operations.
- Navigate complexity: Help the team make pragmatic decisions across legacy systems, integrations, data pipelines, regulatory requirements, agentic workflows, and evolving business needs.
- Build engineering culture: Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-ownership team environment with strong engineering practices, healthy code review, documentation, and incident learning.
- Develop people and leaders: Provide coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development for engineers; identify and grow future technical leaders.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years of experience leading or managing engineers.
- Experience serving in a technical leadership role with responsibility for delivery, execution, and team health.
- Strong technical judgment and the ability to guide architecture and design decisions across distributed systems, data-intensive applications, automation platforms, or business-critical systems.
- Interest in building intelligent or agentic systems that automate complex workflows, improve decision-making, and help teams operate more effectively.
- Experience partnering with non-technical stakeholders and translating complex business requirements into clear engineering priorities.
- A track record of delivering reliable, well-tested, and maintainable systems in production.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to create alignment across engineering, product, finance, compliance, and operations teams.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous domains where business process, regulatory requirements, and technical systems intersect.
- A strong desire to build healthy teams, grow engineers, influence culture, and shape strategy from early-stage ideas through implementation.
Benefits
- Remote work
- Medical insurance
- Flexible time off
- Retirement savings plans
- Modern family planning
Workplace
- Remote role available in Bay Area, CA and US - CA - SoCal - Remote.
Skills
- Go
- Ruby
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Ruby On Rails
- React
- MySQL
- Snowflake
- AWS
- Docker
- Temporal
- Prefect
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- RSpec
- Vitest
- Datadog
