Tech Lead, Business Platform Engineering (Bizplat)

What this role involves

Block's Business Platform (Bizplat) organization is seeking a Tech Lead to serve as the overall systems architect, driving consolidation of fragmented services into unified platform capabilities. The role involves owning the architectural vision, designing core platform capabilities, and leading cross-cutting initiatives across multiple operational domains. Candidates need 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 5 years in a technical leadership or architect role.

Skills this posting asks for

• software engineering
• systems design
• architecture
• service consolidation
• case management
• workflow orchestration
• ai/ml pipelines
• event streaming
• integration frameworks
• api design
• observability
• data governance
• operational reliability
• llms
• agentic architectures
• automation

Requirements

• 10 years of experience
• Level: lead

From the employer’s posting

Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corpora…