Software Engineer, Program Engineering

Bay Area, CA · US - CA - Bay Area - Remote · 3+ years experience · Remote · Posted Sep 23, 2026

At a glance

As a full stack software engineer on Compliance Program Engineering at Block, you'll design, build, and operate core platforms supporting compliance infrastructure.
The team focuses on unified transaction store and search, as well as entity labeling, ingestion, and workflow.
You will balance delivering value today with building foundations that last while working with an incubator mindset.

Partner closely with your team to design, develop, test, ship, and maintain features across our transaction and labeling platforms
Write high-quality, well-tested code, and participate actively in design reviews and code reviews
Design and implement systems that work within our microservice and event-driven architectures and handle sensitive customer and financial data with care and correctness
Improve the coverage, quality, and usability of transaction data so investigators, analysts, and automated systems can trust and act on it
Build self-serve tools and high-volume ingestion pipelines that let teams across Block onboard new products and label entities without waiting on us
Partner directly with Compliance, Risk, and product teams to turn regulatory and business requirements into durable, reusable platform capabilities
Participate in operational ownership of engineering systems, including on-call, incident response, and postmortems
Demonstrate AI fluency by using AI-powered tools throughout the development lifecycle to improve velocity and quality, while applying sound judgment in their use
Hold your teammates, and yourself, to high engineering standards
Learn from and support other engineers through code reviews and technical discussion

3+ years of software development or equivalent experience
Experience building and maintaining production software systems, and delivering well-scoped projects or features end-to-end (design, build, test, ship, operate) with guidance from more experienced engineers
Worked across the stack, on backend services and on the interfaces people use to operate them
Drive to find flaws in a system with many moving parts and take whatever steps are necessary to fix them
Curiosity about problems that arrive only partly specified, and a habit of asking the questions that make them concrete
A track record of explaining technical tradeoffs in writing and in person, to engineers and non-engineers alike
Demonstrated AI fluency, including experience using AI-powered developer tools and the ability to critically evaluate and responsibly apply their outputs
Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience

Experience building platforms or self-serve tools that other engineering teams build on
Experience with search systems, data modeling, or bulk data ingestion at scale
Experience working with sensitive data (PII, PCI) or building to privacy, security, or regulatory requirements
Experience integrating LLMs or agents into production workflows
Interest in compliance or financial technology

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