Blend
Engineering Manager - AI Platform
United States · Contract
Sponsorship not specified$15k-$25kDetected 61 days ago
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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.
- To comply with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location.
Responsibilities
- Hire, mentor, and develop a team of high-performing engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and accountability.
- Collaborate with product managers, design teams, and other stakeholders to align technical execution with business objectives.
- Drive the end-to-end development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production maintenance.
- Champion an AI-forward engineering culture with rapid adoption of new foundation-model capabilities, agentic patterns, and AI-assisted developer workflows, and keep raising the bar on how the team builds with AI.
- we ship agentic features rapidly, lean hard on modern AI tooling at every layer of the stack, and are looking for a leader who will continue pushing that pace of adoption: both in the products we deliver and in how we build them.
- exposure to mortgage / loan-origination workflows (URLA, AUS, document validation, follow-ups).
Requirements
- experience with redaction tooling (Presidio or similar), structured logging, and audit-grade observability.
- Comfort working in a SOC 2 / financial-services environment.
- Helpful but not required; we hire strong engineers and teach the domain.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a leadership or managerial role
- proven ability to hire, mentor, and grow engineers.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, globally distributed environment.
- Deep Python expertise (3.11+), with strong command of async/await, asyncio, type hints, and Pydantic v2.
- Our codebase is ~98% Python and async-first.
- Experience with agent dev kits (ADK, DSPy, LangGraph, or equivalent) and durable workflow engines such as Temporal, Airflow, or Step Functions.
- Foundation-model fluency across providers: Google, Anthropic, or OpenAI.
Skills
- Come do work that matters.
- This role offers a unique opportunity to shape one of the most
Compensation
- Base Salary Range: $159,000 - $187,000 (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.)
- Growth & Future
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
Company info
- We offer medical, dental, and vision benefits, with a generous employer contribution that helps keep your medical insurance costs low.
- Company-paid life, short-term, and long-term disability coverage
- Generous PTO, holidays, and maternity/parental leave
- At Blend, we are committed to offering a competitive compensation package.
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