Tech Lead, Business Platform Engineering (Bizplat)

10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in a technical leadership or architect role owning systems at scale

Deep experience consolidating and simplifying complex service architectures — you've successfully reduced service sprawl, migrated workloads across systems, and decommissioned legacy services in production environments

Strong systems design and architecture skills, with demonstrable experience building platforms used by multiple teams and business domains

Experience building or operating automation, workflow orchestration, or case management systems (e.g., Temporal, Airflow, custom workflow engines, or similar)

Track record of driving technical strategy across organizational boundaries — you've aligned multiple teams to a shared platform vision and executed on multi-quarter roadmaps

Fluency in designing for scalability, reliability, and governance — you understand the operational realities of running systems that process high-volume decisions in regulated environments

Block's Business Platform (Bizplat) organization powers operational automation across the company, focused on Risk & Compliance, Customer Support, GTM and Sales, Finance, and Hardware Supply Chain.

Over the past year, our teams have delivered measurable business outcomes across every major operational domain.

Now, as we scale from isolated automation initiatives to a company-wide automation platform and operating model, we face a critical architectural challenge: too many services and too much fragmentation.

We are looking for a Tech Lead who will serve as the overall systems architect for Bizplat — someone who can see across our sprawling service landscape, identify redundancy and fragmentation, and drive consolidation onto well-architected central systems.

You will be the technical decision-maker responsible for turning down the overwhelming number of services we've accumulated and replacing them with unified, scalable, and governable platform capabilities.

This is a role for a strong technical leader who pairs deep systems design expertise with the judgment to make hard tradeoffs across automation domains.