Senior Software Engineer, Blend
Infrastructure
$122-144k
+ Equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units
4 days a week in office (North Hills, CA)
Digital lending platform
Open for applications
Digital lending platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$122-144k
+ Equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units
4 days a week in office (North Hills, CA)
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 engineers who are passionate about automation, scale, performance, security, and clean code
- This role is ideal for someone who thrives in building Kubernetes at scale, internal platforms, and developing tools that enable developer velocity and operational excellence
- Extensive hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production (EKS preferred)
- 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
- Shown ability with configuration management and service orchestration tools such as Terraform and Docker
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
- 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
- We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a deep focus on infrastructure and platform engineering to join our team
- 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) at scale, supporting dynamic provisioning, intelligent autoscaling, and secure multi-tenant workloads
- Maintain and enhance our internal developer platform and tooling (built in Go on top of Kubernetes) to automate deployments, configuration, and infrastructure workflows — improving deployment orchestration self-service capabilities
- Plan and perform zero-downtime Kubernetes upgrades, ensuring compatibility and minimizing disruption across hundreds of services
- Develop Infrastructure-As-Code using Terraform for provisioning and operating infrastructure in reliable and repeatable fashion
- Drive improvements across our AWS infrastructure in areas like networking, IAM, cost optimization and monitoring
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents
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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