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Staff Data Engineer, Advanced Insights & Modeling

Bay Area, CA, United States of America; US - CA - Bay Area - RemoteRemote · United States
Staff · Foundational - Guidance - Corporate Finance & Strategy
POSTED 12 NOVVERIFIED 26M AGO
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It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic ecosystem, developing unique financial products, including Afterpay/Clearpay, to provide a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our 50+ million monthly active customers. We want to redefine the world’s relationship with money to make it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible.

Today, Cash App has thousands of employees working globally across office and remote locations, with a culture geared toward innovation, collaboration and impact. We’ve been a distributed team since day one, and many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Cash App operates. No matter the location, we tailor our experience to ensure our employees are creative, productive, and happy.

The Role

The Advanced Insights and Modeling (AIM) team is a high-impact, business-savvy group of builders: machine learning engineers, data scientists, data engineers, and business strategists who combine technical skills with deep product and financial expertise. We hold high standards, move fast, and own our models end to end. AIM runs on curiosity, bold thinking, and collaboration, and we keep the culture decidedly non-corporate. Teams across Block come to us when they need insight, speed, and real business impact.

AIM sits within Block’s Foundational organization and is sponsored directly by the CFO, but our mandate runs well beyond Finance. We own most of the measurement and predictive modeling at Block: forecasting across Cash App, Square, and Afterpay, customer lifetime value, marketing incrementality and spend optimization, sales pipeline and prospect value, and actives and network-effect measurement. Finance, Marketing, Sales, Product, and Risk all plan against numbers we produce. We also own the data foundations those models run on, and corporate functions including Finance, Accounting, Treasury, SFS, and Procurement increasingly come to us when they want to rethink how their work gets done with AI.

Automation across the enterprise. AIM leads Block’s Foundational Automation program, a CFO-sponsored effort to rebuild how Finance, Accounting, Treasury, SFS, and Procurement operate. Rather than layering AI on top of existing workflows, we rebuild the underlying data and process layer so that agents can take on the work itself: monitoring pipelines, reconciling positions, triaging exceptions, and escalating only the decisions that need a person. In Treasury, you will define and build the data systems and controls that make this automation reliable.

The Treasury opportunity. Block moves money through hundreds of bank accounts across multiple legal entities, and Treasury’s view of that position today is stitched together from bank portals, a liquidity tool, portfolio accounting, and the general ledger, with the gaps closed by hand. No single system tells Treasury, in near real time, where every dollar sits and whether the books agree. You will build that system from the ground up.

Your mandate. You will own the technical direction and hands-on development of Treasury’s data foundation. Treasury manages Block’s own cash, liquidity, and investments across its businesses and legal entities. You will work directly with Treasury and Accounting to understand how they operate, identify what needs to change, and turn those needs into a technical roadmap.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role. You will make architecture and build-versus-buy recommendations, decide what to tackle first, and personally build and operate the core data systems. We’re looking for someone who can take an open-ended business problem through to a working solution, bringing clear recommendations when decisions need broader agreement.

Treasury is the first function to get this treatment. The architecture, controls, and operating model you establish will become the template for Accounting, Procurement, and the rest of Foundational.

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