{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"96770435d6f8cd50529cc8ab","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/96770435d6f8cd50529cc8ab","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/96770435d6f8cd50529cc8ab","title":"Software Engineer - Platform Foundation","description":"Blend is a diverse team of problem solvers who believe that the world’s financial resources should be more accessible. Our cloud banking platform is used by Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, and over 330 other financial services firms to acquire more customers, increase productivity, and deliver end-to-end digital experiences. Our software enables our customers to process an average of more than $5 billion in loans per day, making it possible for consumers to reach their financial goals faster and lead better lives. Come do work that matters.\n\nSoftware Engineer — Platform Foundations\n\nWe are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build and evolve the foundational systems that power our products. This role focuses on backend platform engineering, authentication and authorization, developer infrastructure, and secure AI-assisted automation.\n\nYou 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.\n\nWhat you'll do\nDesign, build, and operate reliable backend services and shared platform capabilities.\nLead technical design for APIs, distributed systems, data storage, workflow orchestration, and service integrations.\nBuild secure authentication and authorization systems for users, partners, services, and API clients.\nDevelop and maintain login flows including SSO, OAuth/OIDC, MFA, session management, token lifecycle, and role- or scope-based access control.\nImprove platform security through strong access controls, auditability, secrets management, tenant isolation, and secure service-to-service communication.\nBuild background-agent systems that automate support and operational workflows while maintaining clear safety controls and human oversight.\nDevelop integrations with collaboration, ticketing, source-control, and internal operational tools.\nCreate safe AI-agent execution patterns, including isolated runtimes, scoped permissions, tool allowlists, approval workflows, and output-safety checks.\nImprove reliability and operability through monitoring, tracing, incident response, testing, and performance engineering.\nPartner with product, security, infrastructure, and support teams to turn complex requirements into scalable platform capabilities.\nMentor engineers, contribute to technical standards, and lead design discussions across teams.\nLead complex projects, make strong architectural decisions, and improve the systems around them.\nSet technical direction for broader areas, align teams around platform investments, and create leverage through mentorship, standards, and architecture.\nTechnical environment\nOur work includes:\nGo, TypeScript, and Node.js\nRESTful APIs and distributed services\nPostgreSQL, MongoDB, and event-driven systems\nWorkflow orchestration and asynchronous job processing\nDocker, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD\nOAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWTs, MFA, RBAC, API scopes, and service authentication\nObservability tooling, including metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting\nAI-agent frameworks, tool calling, secure execution environments, evaluations, and human-in-the-loop workflows\nWhat we're looking for\n6+ years of professional software engineering experience.\nStrong backend engineering experience in Go, TypeScript/Node.js, Java, Python, or a similar language.\nExperience designing and operating production distributed systems, APIs, databases, and asynchronous workflows.\nStrong understanding of authentication, authorization, sessions, tokens, identity protocols, and secure API design.\nExperience building secure, reliable systems that handle sensitive data and enforce access controls.\nFamiliarity with cloud infrastructure, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and production observability.\nStrong system-design skills and the ability to make sound technical tradeoffs.\nClear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence across teams.\nA practical ownership mindset: comfortable debugging production issues and improving systems end to end.\nNice to have\nExperience with AI agents, LLM tool use, automation platforms, or human-in-the-loop systems.\nExperience designing secure agent runtimes, sandboxing, permission models, or safety controls.\nExperience with enterprise identity integrations and SSO.\nExperience with workflow engines, event-driven architectures, or platform engineering.\nExperience in fintech, security, healthcare, or another regulated industry.\nExperience mentoring engineers or leading cross-team technical initiatives.\n\nCompensation:\n\nBase 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.)\nBonus (if applicable): Eligibility is contingent upon both company performance against established goals and achievement of individual performance objectives.\nEquity : Meaningful Restricted Stock Units in public company stock (NYSE: BLND) so you share in Blend’s long-term growth and success.\nOur Benefits at a Glance\n\nWe offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support your health and work-life balance.\n\nHealth & Wellbeing\nWe offer medical, dental, and vision benefits, with a generous employer contribution that helps keep your medical insurance costs low.\nCompany-paid life, short-term, and long-term disability coverage\nGenerous PTO, holidays, and maternity/parental leave\nEmployee Assistance Program (EAP): mental health, legal, childcare & eldercare, financial planning, college search, and more\nVoluntary benefits: accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, identity theft, and legal insurance\nMonthly wellness stipend for fitness, mental health, and well-being\nAdditional perks: Milk Stork, pet insurance, and paid volunteer time off\nGrowth & Future\n401(k) retirement plan with company match\nPre-tax savings: healthcare & dependent care FSAs, Limited Purpose FSA, and HSA","company":"Blend","rawCompany":"blend","city":"Denver","state":"CO","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-12T08:30:17.040Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1211.00","title":"Computer Systems Analysts","slug":"computer-systems-analysts"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Software Engineer - Platform Foundation","description":"Blend is a diverse team of problem solvers who believe that the world’s financial resources should be more accessible. Our cloud banking platform is used by Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, and over 330 other financial services firms to acquire more customers, increase productivity, and deliver end-to-end digital experiences. Our software enables our customers to process an average of more than $5 billion in loans per day, making it possible for consumers to reach their financial goals faster and lead better lives. Come do work that matters.\n\nSoftware Engineer — Platform Foundations\n\nWe are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build and evolve the foundational systems that power our products. This role focuses on backend platform engineering, authentication and authorization, developer infrastructure, and secure AI-assisted automation.\n\nYou 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.\n\nWhat you'll do\nDesign, build, and operate reliable backend services and shared platform capabilities.\nLead technical design for APIs, distributed systems, data storage, workflow orchestration, and service integrations.\nBuild secure authentication and authorization systems for users, partners, services, and API clients.\nDevelop and maintain login flows including SSO, OAuth/OIDC, MFA, session management, token lifecycle, and role- or scope-based access control.\nImprove platform security through strong access controls, auditability, secrets management, tenant isolation, and secure service-to-service communication.\nBuild background-agent systems that automate support and operational workflows while maintaining clear safety controls and human oversight.\nDevelop integrations with collaboration, ticketing, source-control, and internal operational tools.\nCreate safe AI-agent execution patterns, including isolated runtimes, scoped permissions, tool allowlists, approval workflows, and output-safety checks.\nImprove reliability and operability through monitoring, tracing, incident response, testing, and performance engineering.\nPartner with product, security, infrastructure, and support teams to turn complex requirements into scalable platform capabilities.\nMentor engineers, contribute to technical standards, and lead design discussions across teams.\nLead complex projects, make strong architectural decisions, and improve the systems around them.\nSet technical direction for broader areas, align teams around platform investments, and create leverage through mentorship, standards, and architecture.\nTechnical environment\nOur work includes:\nGo, TypeScript, and Node.js\nRESTful APIs and distributed services\nPostgreSQL, MongoDB, and event-driven systems\nWorkflow orchestration and asynchronous job processing\nDocker, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD\nOAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWTs, MFA, RBAC, API scopes, and service authentication\nObservability tooling, including metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting\nAI-agent frameworks, tool calling, secure execution environments, evaluations, and human-in-the-loop workflows\nWhat we're looking for\n6+ years of professional software engineering experience.\nStrong backend engineering experience in Go, TypeScript/Node.js, Java, Python, or a similar language.\nExperience designing and operating production distributed systems, APIs, databases, and asynchronous workflows.\nStrong understanding of authentication, authorization, sessions, tokens, identity protocols, and secure API design.\nExperience building secure, reliable systems that handle sensitive data and enforce access controls.\nFamiliarity with cloud infrastructure, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and production observability.\nStrong system-design skills and the ability to make sound technical tradeoffs.\nClear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence across teams.\nA practical ownership mindset: comfortable debugging production issues and improving systems end to end.\nNice to have\nExperience with AI agents, LLM tool use, automation platforms, or human-in-the-loop systems.\nExperience designing secure agent runtimes, sandboxing, permission models, or safety controls.\nExperience with enterprise identity integrations and SSO.\nExperience with workflow engines, event-driven architectures, or platform engineering.\nExperience in fintech, security, healthcare, or another regulated industry.\nExperience mentoring engineers or leading cross-team technical initiatives.\n\nCompensation:\n\nBase Salary Range: $124,000 – $146,000 (This applies to full time hires. 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