3 months ago
Base Salary
$167k - $231k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver projects aligned with business goals.
- Design, develop, and maintain self-service tools that improve the investor experience.
- Identify process optimization opportunities and build solutions that improve business workflows.
- Develop scalable and reliable systems for internal users and external investors.
- Maintain security, performance, and availability of critical platforms.
- Participate in code reviews, testing, and deployment of high-quality software.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software development experience focused on full-stack development, distributed systems, and APIs.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable APIs, services, and UIs.
- Experience with one or more of Ruby on Rails, Kotlin, PostgreSQL, React, Next.js, Vercel, and Python.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and cloud-native application deployment.
- Experience with microservices architecture and real-time data processing pipelines such as Kafka or Spark.
- Familiarity with SQL and data warehousing technologies.
- Preferred experience building robust platforms, working in capital markets or financial services, and developing internal tools.
- Strong communication and teamwork skills for cross-functional collaboration.
Benefits
- Remote work within the United States, with most teams meeting onsite once or twice per quarter for 2–4 consecutive days.
- Medical, dental, vision, wellness resources, and eligible Health Savings Account contributions.
- 401(k) or Group Retirement Savings Plan with company match up to $15,000 annually.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan, equity grants, bonus opportunities, and competitive compensation.
- Life insurance, disability coverage, paid time off, sick leave, company holidays, and paid family and parental leave.
- Family-centered fertility, parenthood, and caregiving benefits plus an Employee Assistance Program.
- Annual wellness and productivity allowances, financial wellness resources, team events, and employee resource groups.
- Catered lunches and stocked micro-kitchens at company offices.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaApache SparkAWSAzureGoogle Cloud PlatformKotlinNext.jsPostgreSQLPythonReactRuby on RailsSQLVercel
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About Upstart
Upstart builds an AI-powered lending marketplace and cloud software that connect consumers to banks and credit unions for personal, auto, and home-equity credit. Lenders use Upstart’s credit models and applications to automate originations, while Upstart earns platform and referral fees. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Upstart is a public company listed on NASDAQ under the ticker UPST.