--- title: 'Business Automation Engineer at Blend' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/business-automation-engineer-blend-united-states-mzsm4zeq1h0v' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-17' --- # Business Automation Engineer at Blend - **Company:** Blend - **Location:** United States - **Posted:** 2026-10-12 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/blend/jobs/6222384004 ## Job 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. Business Automation Engineer As a Business Automation Engineer, you’ll partner with teams across the company to rethink and refactor how work gets done. You’ll find manual and repetitive processes and then design and build automations to improve the quality of work and day-to-day business life of our internal partners. We’re focused on deploying efficient and adaptable automations that actually solve problems. As one of the first members of the team, you’ll help build the foundation for a scalable hub of automations and integrations, using both off-the-shelf products and custom code where appropriate. You’ll help shape the workflows that make our team an effective and reliable partner for bringing business processes into an automated, AI-augmented world. You’ll work closely with security and IT leadership from the beginning to ensure the team’s foundations and, therefore, the rest of the company’s internal automation efforts are secure, auditable, and built to last. ## How You’ll Contribute - Partner with business stakeholder to understand workflows and triage high-impact automation opportunities. - Business, build, and deploy automations across various SaaS tooling, internal systems, and APIs. - Leverage AI and agentic patterns when it adds value to business operations workflows and recognize when simpler, more deterministic solutions are the better choice. - Build with a secure-by-default mindset, including the incorporation of access controls, secrets management, logging, and the proper handling of sensitive information. - Establish team patterns and culture, including documentation, testing, and ongoing operational maintenance. - Be willing to tinker, iterate, and improve existing systems as we gain more context and mastery over the business environment. ## Who You Are - 3+ years of experience building integrations, internal tooling, or automations in a business or operations setting. - Proficient in at least one scripting language (Python, Javascript, or similar) and/or a general purpose programming language (Typescript, Go, Rust, or similar). - DevOps-minded engineer familiar with infrastructure-as-code tools (Ansible, Terraform, GitHub Actions, containers, etc.). - Hands-on experience building with LLMs and creating agentic workflows (prompting, tool use and curation, benchmarking evaluations, guardrails, etc.). - Experience with workflow or integration platforms (Workato, Zapier, n8n, or similar). - Proactive and pragmatic. Able to translate business processes into effective automations. Bonus Qualifications - Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and serverless or containerized deployments. - Hands-on experience with Kubernetes. - Familiarity with common business systems, such as NetSuite, Salesforce, Workday, Freshservice, and HR tooling. - Background in security, compliance, or working within a regulated or controlled environment. Compensation: - Base Salary Range: $124,000 – $145,000 (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.) - 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 - 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 - Employee Assistance Program (EAP): mental health, legal, childcare & eldercare, financial planning, college search, and more - Voluntary benefits: accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, identity theft, and legal insurance - Monthly wellness stipend for fitness, mental health, and well-being - Additional perks: Milk Stork, pet insurance, and paid volunteer time off Growth & Future - 401(k) retirement plan with company match - Pre-tax savings: healthcare & dependent care FSAs, Limited Purpose FSA, and HSA ## About Blend ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: A digital origination platform that helps banks, credit unions, and mortgage lenders simplify and accelerate lending and account opening. - **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: BLND) - **Headquarters**: Not publicly available from provided sources - **Founded**: Not publicly available from provided sources - **Founders**: Nima Ghamsari (Co-founder and Head of Blend) – [blend.com/company/about](https://blend.com/company/about/) ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Financial technology (fintech), digital lending, mortgage origination, consumer banking. - Target customers: B2B – financial institutions including banks, credit unions, independent mortgage banks (IMBs), and mortgage servicers. - Mission or purpose statement: “Make financial services simpler, faster, and more accessible.” – [blend.com/company/about](https://blend.com/company/about/) ## Products & Services - **Home Lending Suite**: End-to-end digital mortgage and home equity origination, from point-of-sale to closing. Includes application-less refinance solutions and automated workflows. - **Consumer Banking Suite**: Digital account opening and deposit origination to help banks grow deposit balances. - **Blend Autopilot**: Automated processing and underwriting tools that reduce manual work. - **Partner Network**: Pre-built integrations with dozens of third-party services (e.g., title, valuation, income verification) for seamless deployment. All offerings are SaaS, delivered via a unified platform. – [blend.com](https://blend.com/) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available from provided sources (as of reporting date). - **Key Metric**: $1.2 trillion in loan applications processed by Blend in 2024. – [blend.com/company/about](https://blend.com/company/about/) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: The company serves 39 of the top 100 U.S. Federal Reserve institutions and 7 of the top 10 U.S. credit unions. Major clients include CrossCountry Mortgage and BMO. – [blend.com/company/about](https://blend.com/company/about/) - **Growth Signals**: Reported 53% reduction in post-closing signature errors, 105% time savings from digital home equity applications, and an average closing time reduction from 2 hours to 45 minutes. – [blend.com](https://blend.com/) ## Competitive Advantages - Pre-built partner integrations that reduce implementation to as fast as 4 weeks, lowering total cost of ownership. - Co-creation model: Products are developed in direct partnership with customers, leading to high retention and ROI. - Scalable platform used by the largest U.S. financial institutions, giving Blend deep domain expertise and trust. ## Strategic Focus - Expanding automated workflows (e.g., Autopilot) to save lenders 16+ hours per loan. - Growing the consumer banking suite to capture deposit origination and boost cross-sell. - Leveraging AI (evidenced by the open Engineering Manager – AI Platform role) to further automate underwriting and customer experiences. ## Why Work Here - Culture highlighted by values: “Innovation”, “Measurable results”, “Collaboration”, and “True partnership”. - Hybrid work model with flexibility; open vacation policy; comprehensive health, wellness, and family-forming benefits; meaningful equity; 401(k) with employer match; employee assistance program; legal plan; and digital coaching. - Emphasis on diverse, high-performing teams and proactive decision-making. - Open roles as of July 2025 include Engineering Manager – AI Platform, Client Sales Executive, Director of Client Sales, Sales Engineer, and VP of Client Sales (all US-based). – [blend.com/company/careers](https://blend.com/company/careers/) and [job-boards.greenhouse.io/blend](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/blend) ## Sources 1. [blend.com](https://blend.com/) 2. [blend.com/company/about](https://blend.com/company/about/) 3. [blend.com/company/careers](https://blend.com/company/careers/) 4. 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