About the company
Blend is a diverse team of problem solvers who believe that the world’s financial resources should be more accessible. Our cloud banking platform is used by Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, and over 330 other financial services firms to acquire more customers, increase productivity, and deliver end-to-end digital experiences. Our software enables our customers to process an average of more than $5 billion in loans per day.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate reliable backend services and shared platform capabilities.
- Lead technical design for APIs, distributed systems, data storage, workflow orchestration, and service integrations.
- Build secure authentication and authorization systems for users, partners, services, and API clients.
- Develop and maintain login flows including SSO, OAuth/OIDC, MFA, session management, token lifecycle, and role- or scope-based access control.
- Improve platform security through strong access controls, auditability, secrets management, tenant isolation, and secure service-to-service communication.
- Build background-agent systems that automate support and operational workflows while maintaining clear safety controls and human oversight.
- Develop integrations with collaboration, ticketing, source-control, and internal operational tools.
- Create safe AI-agent execution patterns, including isolated runtimes, scoped permissions, tool allowlists, approval workflows, and output-safety checks.
- Improve reliability and operability through monitoring, tracing, incident response, testing, and performance engineering.
- Partner with product, security, infrastructure, and support teams to turn complex requirements into scalable platform capabilities.
- Mentor engineers, contribute to technical standards, and lead design discussions across teams.
- Lead complex projects, make strong architectural decisions, and improve the systems around them.
- Set technical direction for broader areas, align teams around platform investments, and create leverage through mentorship, standards, and architecture.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong backend engineering experience in Go, TypeScript/Node.js, Java, Python, or a similar language.
- Experience designing and operating production distributed systems, APIs, databases, and asynchronous workflows.
- Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, sessions, tokens, identity protocols, and secure API design.
- Experience building secure, reliable systems that handle sensitive data and enforce access controls.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and production observability.
- Strong system-design skills and the ability to make sound technical tradeoffs.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence across teams.
- A practical ownership mindset: comfortable debugging production issues and improving systems end to end.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI agents, LLM tool use, automation platforms, or human-in-the-loop systems.
- Experience designing secure agent runtimes, sandboxing, permission models, or safety controls.
- Experience with enterprise identity integrations and SSO.
- Experience with workflow engines, event-driven architectures, or platform engineering.
- Experience in fintech, security, healthcare, or another regulated industry.
- Experience mentoring engineers or leading cross-team technical initiatives.
Conditions
- Base Salary Range: $124,000 – $146,000 (This applies to full time hires. Final offer determined by multiple factors, including but not limited to function, level, geographic location, job related knowledge, skills, and experience.)
- Bonus (if applicable): Eligibility is contingent upon both company performance against established goals and achievement of individual performance objectives.
- Equity: Meaningful Restricted Stock Units in public company stock (NYSE: BLND) so you share in Blend’s long-term growth and success.
- Health & Wellbeing: medical, dental, and vision benefits, with a generous employer contribution that helps keep your medical insurance costs low.
- Company-paid life, short-term, and long-term disability coverage.
- Generous PTO, holidays, and maternity/parental leave.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP): mental health, legal, childcare & eldercare, financial planning, college search, and more.
- Voluntary benefits: accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, identity theft, and legal insurance.
- Monthly wellness stipend.