Software Engineer, Blend
Infrastructure
$129-152k
+ Restricted Stock Units
Digital lending platform
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Digital lending platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$129-152k
+ Restricted Stock Units
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
- We're looking for an Infrastructure Engineer with a deep focus on platform engineering to join our team. This role is ideal for someone who lives in Kubernetes and Terraform day to day and who thrives on building scalable systems and codifying infrastructure, a developer of internal tooling that enables developer velocity and operational excellence
- Extensive hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production
- Strong, demonstrated experience authoring and operating Terraform in production, with a solid grasp of Infrastructure-as-Code principles, module design, and state management
- Proficient in one major programming language such as Go (preferred), TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Rust, C++, etc
- Deep knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred)
- Proven track record of shipping and maintaining internal platforms, tooling, or developer infrastructure used at scale
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with 5+ years of Platform / SRE / Infrastructure experience
- A team focused engineer that wants to collaborate with likeminded peers
- Able to learn and contribute to a diverse set of projects both open source and internally developed
What the job involves
- Blend is solving significant internal engineering challenges as we expand from processing thousands to millions of loans, at more and more lending organizations, and over an increasingly large part of the lifecycle of each loan. We're looking for engineers who are passionate about automation, scale, performance, security, and clean code
- Blend's Infrastructure team acts as a company within a company, empowering developers to ship their code faster and more securely. The work the team does is incredibly important and multiplies productivity across the entire organization
- Two technologies sit at the core of everything we build: Kubernetes (EKS), which runs hundreds of services across our platform, and Terraform, through which we provision and operate nearly all of our cloud infrastructure as code
- This is not a traditional DevOps role, it's a software engineering position that embraces DevOps principles and infrastructure best practices to create resilient systems and empower teams
- Operate Kubernetes infrastructure (EKS preferred) at scale, supporting dynamic provisioning, intelligent autoscaling, secure multi-tenant workloads, and performing zero-downtime upgrades
- Design and develop Infrastructure-as-Code using industry best practices
- Maintain and enhance our internal developer platform, tooling, and infrastructure workflows
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents
- Our Core Technologies
- Kubernetes (EKS): The backbone of our compute platform
- Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code: Our source of truth for everything we own
- Go: The language our internal developer tooling is built with
- AWS: Our cloud provider and primary building platform
- Docker: Standardized packaging for the workloads we run across the platform
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 took this into account. From reports on revenue and growth, it seems Blend is holding steady to this plan, which suggests a strong future for the company.
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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