Backend Software Engineer, Blend

• You have 3+ years of relevant industry experience
• Coding experience with any major language, like TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Java, etc
• Experience working enterprise grade production systems
• Excellent communication and leadership skills for collaborating with other teams
• Solid experience and understanding of maintainable distributed systems
• Ability and willingness to help others succeed and be productive

Desirable

• The Platform Foundation Team provides frameworks that other engineering teams can utilize to build business solutions
• This includes diverse offerings like the public api, our event broadcasting system, and search - powering external and internal integrations across the company, enabling new service-to-service communication paradigms, and delivering lightning-fast lookups of denormalized data for our end-users
• Design and build distributed systems for long-term scalability and maintainability
• Collaborate with feature development teams to understand their needs from the platform
• Architect solutions that establish good patterns and fulfill development team needs
• Build tools to enable developer productivity
• Monitor production systems for issues
• We are looking for engineers who are passionate about distributed systems design, software architecture, scalability, and building intuitive products for their users
• We are looking for a strong collaborator who is willing to work with feature development teams to understand their needs from the platform, to design solutions that fulfill their immediate needs but that also establish good patterns for the long-term scalability and maintainability of our products