Blend Labs Inc.

Blend Labs Inc.

Software Engineer - Platform Foundation

United States · Senior · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$124k-$146kDetected 41 days ago
TypeScriptPythonJavaGoNode.jsDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentPostgreSQLMongoDBCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesCI/CDPlatform EngineeringRESTOAuthLLMsAgentic AIAI OrchestrationIncident ResponseCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

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About the role

  • Blend is a diverse team of problem solvers who believe that the world's financial resources should be more accessible.
  • You will work on high-impact systems used across the organization: identity, access control, APIs, asynchronous workflows, shared services, and background agents that help internal teams investigate and resolve operational issues.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate reliable backend services and shared platform capabilities.
  • Lead technical design for APIs, distributed systems, data storage, workflow orchestration, and service integrations.
  • Build secure authentication and authorization systems for users, partners, services, and API clients.
  • Develop and maintain login flows including SSO, OAuth/OIDC, MFA, session management, token lifecycle, and role- or scope-based access control.
  • Build background-agent systems that automate support and operational workflows while maintaining clear safety controls and human oversight.
  • Develop integrations with collaboration, ticketing, source-control, and internal operational tools.
  • Create safe AI-agent execution patterns, including isolated runtimes, scoped permissions, tool allowlists, approval workflows, and output-safety checks.
  • Partner with product, security, infrastructure, and support teams to turn complex requirements into scalable platform capabilities.
  • Mentor engineers, contribute to technical standards, and lead design discussions across teams.
  • Lead complex projects, make strong architectural decisions, and improve the systems around them.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Strong backend engineering experience in Go, TypeScript/Node.js, Java, Python, or a similar language.
  • Experience designing and operating production distributed systems, APIs, databases, and asynchronous workflows.
  • Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, sessions, tokens, identity protocols, and secure API design.
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and production observability.
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence across teams.

Nice to have

  • Experience with AI agents, LLM tool use, automation platforms, or human-in-the-loop systems.
  • Experience designing secure agent runtimes, sandboxing, permission models, or safety controls.
  • Experience with enterprise identity integrations and SSO.
  • Experience with workflow engines, event-driven architectures, or platform engineering.
  • Experience mentoring engineers or leading cross-team technical initiatives.

Skills

  • Come do work that matters.
  • Software Engineer - Platform Foundations
  • You will work on high-impact systems used across the organization:

Compensation

  • Base Salary Range: $124,000 - $146,000 (This applies to full time hires. Final offer determined by multiple factors, including but not limited to function, level, geographic location, job related knowledge, skills, and experience.)

Benefits

  • Monthly wellness stipend for fitness, mental health, and well-being
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match
  • Milk Stork, pet insurance, and paid volunteer time off
  • Pre-tax savings: healthcare & dependent care FSAs, Limited Purpose FSA, and HSA
  • Bonus (if applicable): Eligibility is contingent upon both company performance against established goals and achievement of individual performance objectives.
  • Equity: Meaningful Restricted Stock Units in public company stock (NYSE: BLND) so you share in Blend's long-term growth and success.
  • Our Benefits at a Glance
  • We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support your health and work-life balance.
  • Health & Wellbeing
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