Base Salary
$142k - $197k/yr
Responsibilities
- Deliver user-facing features that improve loan application and rate-check experiences and conversion metrics.
- Maintain full-stack web applications by monitoring latency, error rates, and other key system metrics at scale.
- Help define and build a next-generation platform funding form supporting multiple products.
- Contribute to architectural direction and long-term scalability.
- Improve system performance, reliability, and on-call health for owned features.
- Partner with Product, Design, and Machine Learning to launch product flows, model upgrades, and personalized borrower journeys.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent, plus 4 years of experience.
- End-to-end feature delivery across frontend and backend systems, including APIs and microservices.
- Strong frontend development experience building performant, usable, customer-facing web applications.
- Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Design, and other engineering teams.
- Preferred: experience improving conversion funnels or other high-scale, metrics-driven journeys through A/B testing or personalization.
- Preferred: experience operating in a microservices-based architecture.
- Preferred: fintech or other highly regulated, high-availability experience.
Benefits
- Remote position with East/West Coast time-zone requirements.
- Digital-first work model with most work completed remotely and team onsites typically once or twice per quarter for 2–4 consecutive days.
- Base compensation includes target bonuses, equity compensation, and annual equity grants vesting quarterly.
- 401(k) or Group Retirement Savings Plan with a company match of $2 for every $1 contributed, up to $15,000 annually.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan with discounted stock purchase options for eligible US employees.
- Medical, dental, vision, wellness resources, health savings account contributions, life insurance, and 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.
- Financial wellness resources, annual wellness allowance, and annual productivity allowance.
- Team events, employee resource groups, catered lunches, and stocked office micro-kitchens.
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About Upstart
Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST) is the leading AI lending marketplace, connecting millions of consumers to more than 100 banks and credit unions that leverage Upstart’s AI models and cloud applications to deliver superior credit products. With Upstart AI, lenders can approve more borrowers at lower rates while delivering the exceptional digital-first experience customers demand. More than 90% of loans are fully automated, with no human intervention by Upstart. Founded in 2012, Upstart’s platform includes personal loans, automotive retail and refinance loans, home equity lines of credit, and small-dollar “relief” loans. Upstart is based in San Mateo, California. Upstart Network, Inc. NMLS #936133 | All mortgage lending conducted by Upstart Mortgage, LLC. NMLS #2443873 nmlsconsumeraccess.org