Software Engineer, Blend
Platform Foundation
$122-144k
+ Equity
Digital lending platform
Open for applications
Digital lending platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$122-144k
+ 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
- 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
- Minimal 3 years of working experience as backend software developer
- Coding experience with any major language, like TypeScript/JavaScript, Golang, Python, Java, C#, etc
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent education background
- Excellent communication skills for collaborating with other teams
- Ability and willingness to help others succeed and be productive
What the job involves
- The Platform Foundation Team is one of the core platform teams that provide foundational components for the entirety of Blend engineering
- We build the core pieces of functionality that power experiences across all of our product lines
- The Platform Foundation Team provides frameworks that other engineering teams can utilize to build business solutions
- This includes diverse offerings like the public api/webhook, email/sms, events, search, payment and other common services
- We are evangelists for bringing cutting-edge technology into Blend to solve business problems in new and inventive ways
- Our goal is to build a solid foundation for Blend to create a scalable and resilient ecosystem
- The challenges we face are both highly technical and highly impactful, providing a lever for all of engineering to deliver value to our customers faster and better!
- Design and build distributed systems for long-term scalability and maintainability
- Collaborate with feature development teams to understand their needs from the platform
- Build tools to enable developer productivity
- Monitor production systems for issues
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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