Staff Software Engineer, Payments Acquiring

Block · Bay Area, CA, United States of America

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Company: Block
Location: Bay Area, CA, United States of America
Salary: $263,600 — $395,400
Posted: October 8, 2026

About this job

The Role At Block, we strive to build the best financial products in the world. The Financial Platform Acquiring team owns the acquiring side of card payments for Square, Cash App, and Afterpay. When someone pays with a card at a Square seller, through Afterpay, or uses a card to move money in or out of Cash App, our systems make sure that payment happens correctly, every time. We take in and tokenize card data from chip, tap, digital wallets, and online checkout, route each payment, and get it authorized over our direct network connections and acquiring partners. Then we capture, clear, and settle it, in the US and internationally.…

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