Block is hiring a Senior iOS Engineer, Neighborhoods in 10527 Engineering - Square — Bay Area, CA, United States of America. The overview below is synthesized from the employer posting on block.xyz: factual requirements and scope are preserved, but prose is rewritten with editorial context. Verify details and apply via the employer link.
Since we opened our doors in 2009, the world of commerce has evolved immensely, and so has Square. After enabling anyone to take payments and never miss a sale, we saw sellers stymied by disparate, outmoded products and tools that wouldn’t work together.
So we expanded into software and started building integrated, omnichannel solutions – to help sellers sell online, manage inventory, offer buy now, pay later functionality, book appointments, engage loyal buyers, and hire and pay staff. Across it all, we’ve embedded financial services tools at the point of sale, so merchants can access a business loan and manage their cash flow in one place.
Today, we are a partner to sellers of all sizes – large, enterprise-scale businesses with complex operations, sellers just starting, as well as merchants who began selling with Square and have grown larger over time. As our sellers grow, so do our solutions.
The Role
Day-to-day scope for the Senior iOS Engineer, Neighborhoods as described in the posting:
Launched in October 2025, Neighborhoods is a new network between Cash App and Square that gives local businesses the ability to offer online ordering with the power of a mobile app. Sellers get their own branded storefront, accessible on both web and inside Cash App.
As a senior iOS engineer on the Neighborhoods team, you will help bring the vision of the neighborhood network to life. You will shape the technical direction for Neighborhoods mobile experiences across Cash App and Square Point of Sale, while staying hands-on with the systems and features that help customers discover and support local businesses.
We are a small, collaborative and remote-friendly team. We believe in people over process, value authenticity and openness, and have a bias for action. Come join us!
You Will
Lead major Neighborhoods mobile workstreams across Cash App and Square
- Lead major mobile workstreams within a company-level initiative to redefine local commerce and connect the Square and Cash App ecosystems
- Drive cross-team architecture and execution with teams across Square and Cash App to deliver seamless integration of Neighborhoods loyalty, marketing, and ordering features in Cash App running on Square’s platform
- Shape the mobile systems that connect customer discovery in Cash App with seller ordering and fulfillment workflows in Square Point of Sale
- Stay hands-on in iOS development using SwiftUI, Workflow, and related technologies across the Square Point of Sale and Cash App codebases, making tradeoffs that keep mobile experiences reliable, scalable, and polished
- Partner with backend, web, and Android engineers to ship features with a focus on quality and craft, while mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar for the team
- Work cross-functionally with product managers and designers to define product scope, sequence ambiguous work, and make clear technical and product tradeoffs
Lead as an AI-native product engineer
- Use AI tools as a native part of feature development: exploring unfamiliar codebases, prototyping product ideas, accelerating implementation, generating tests, improving observability, and tightening documentation
- Identify, teach, and scale practical AI-assisted workflows for product engineering, especially in cross-codebase feature work, migration, debugging, QA, experimentation, and rapid iteration
- Apply strong judgment around AI-generated work: verify behavior, protect customer trust, preserve maintainability, and use AI to raise the team’s technical bar
- Model how a senior engineer uses AI to multiply impact without losing product taste, architectural ownership, or accountability for the systems we ship
Qualifications
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
- 8+ years of relevant experience with iOS engineering design and implementation, including deep Swift and Objective-C experience
- Experience leading iOS architecture with unidirectional data flow, declarative UI frameworks, and scalable mobile patterns
- Experience leading medium-to-large, multi-person mobile initiatives that cross team boundaries, from ambiguous problem framing through delivery, including applying AI tools thoughtfully to improve engineering speed, quality, and learning
- Proven ability to work across team boundaries and disciplines to deliver remarkable solutions to customers
- Track record shaping team mission and roadmap, rallying others around technical direction, and mentoring engineers to expand their scope and impact
Technologies We Use and Teach
- SwiftUI, UIKit, Swift Concurrency, Combine
- Protocol Buffers
- Bazel for our build environment
- AI tools including Cursor, Claude Code, Goose
Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S.
To find a location’s zone designation, please refer to this resource. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information.
Zone A:
$217,800—$326,800 USD
Zone B:
$207,000—$310,400 USD
Zone C:
$196,100—$294,100 USD
Zone D:
$185,200—$277,800 USD
Application Guidelines
Candidates may submit up to 9 active applications within a 60-day period. Reapplications to the same role are accepted 90 days after a previous application has been reviewed.
Use of AI in Our Hiring Process
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Every benefit we offer is designed with one goal: empowering you to do the best work of your career while building the life you want. Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offering.
Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy.