Job description
Role Overview
As an Engineering Manager at Blend, you will lead and grow a team of engineers building Blend's intelligent origination products including Blend Autopilot, our AI agent that automates document review, compliance checking, and borrower follow-ups during loan origination, taking documents from upload to reviewed in 15--25 seconds.
This role offers a unique opportunity to shape one of the most AI-forward teams in Fintech: 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.
Key Responsibilities
- Guide architectural decisions, ensuring the delivery of scalable, robust, and maintainable solutions aligned with Blend's goals.
- 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.
- Play a key role in connecting global engineering teams, ensuring alignment across teams, tools, and processes.
- Conduct regular code reviews, advocate for engineering best practices, and encourage technical excellence.
- 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.
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.
- "Employee-first" environment, where most employees can work wherever they choose.
- Flexible work schedule.
- Open vacation policy.
- Meaningful equity and 401(k) plan.