Engineering Manager, Blend
Applied Artificial Intelligence
$195-229k
+ Equity
Digital lending platform
Be an early applicant
Digital lending platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$195-229k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To provide better lending for everyone, streamlining the end-to-end customer journey for banking products.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a leadership or managerial role
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
- Proven ability to lead, mentor, and grow engineering teams, including experience with hiring and talent development
- Hands-on experience with building products on AI agentic frameworks and foundational AI models
- Hands-on knowledge and experience in various front-end and back-end technologies like Python, Node.js, Typescript, Go, React
- Hands-on knowledge and experience with relational, document, and vector databases like Postgres, MongoDB, Prismic, Pinecone, Qdrant, or similar technologies
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure software like AWS, Google Cloud or Azure
- Track record of balancing technical depth with business priorities to deliver impactful results
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager at Blend, you will lead and grow a team of engineers, driving the development of innovative, scalable solutions. You’ll own technical strategy while fostering a culture of collaboration, mentorship, and excellence
- This role offers a unique opportunity to bridge Blend US and Blend India operations, helping establish a high-performing team that builds transformative financial products for millions of users
- Guide architectural decisions, ensuring the delivery of scalable, robust, and maintainable solutions aligned with Blend’s goals
- Hire, mentor, and develop a team of high-performing engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and accountability
- Collaborate with product managers, design teams, and other stakeholders to align technical execution with business objectives
- Drive the end-to-end development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production maintenance
- Play a key role in connecting global engineering teams, ensuring alignment across teams, tools, and processes
- Conduct regular code reviews, advocate for engineering best practices, and encourage technical excellence
Our take
Nowadays, the vast majority of housing deals are done online. This is possible because of companies like Blend, a digital banking platform out to simplify the mortgage process.
Blend is used by major banks and financial institutions to offer mortgages and consumer loans. It has proved popular thus far, although its success continues to be tied to interest rates and the housing market, which means a few bumps in the road are inevitable.
That being said, in 2023 the company set out a "path to profitability" that takes this into account. This should make for strong, and more importantly sustainable, growth in the future
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2021
$300m
SERIES G
Aug 2020
$75m
SERIES F
Total funding: $665m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Wellness program that covers a variety of activities, gym memberships, and more
- Partnerships to support all of life’s milestones: Origin Financial Wellness, Compsych Employee Assistance Program, RocketLawyer Legal Plan, and more
- Various leave programs including 16 weeks of paid parental leave with no tenure requirement
- Thoughtful, regular performance reviews
- Support for workshops and lectures to develop your craft
- Meaningful equity and 401(k) plan
- “Employee-first” environment, where most employees can work wherever they choose
- Flexible work schedule
- Open vacation policy
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Nima Ghamsari
(Founder & Head)They studied Computer Science at Harvard before working for 4 years in Business Development and Engineering at Palantir Technologies.
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