2 months ago
Base Salary
$167k - $231k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable backend services for communications across SMS, email, push, and future channels.
- Develop real-time, event-triggered messaging, self-serve marketing automation, and experimentation capabilities.
- Transform large datasets into marketing capabilities through APIs, streaming pipelines, and reverse ETL workflows.
- Partner with product, lifecycle marketing, insights, analytics, data platform, and ML teams to define requirements and deliver solutions.
- Lead medium-sized projects from design through launch while managing risks and ambiguity.
- Improve system reliability, iteration speed, and communication of technical trade-offs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or its equivalent, plus six years of experience.
- Experience building and operating microservices and APIs in a cloud environment, preferably AWS.
- Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Kotlin, Java, Ruby, or Python.
- Ability to independently execute projects, navigate ambiguity, and collaborate with cross-functional partners.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in a distributed team.
- Preferred: experience supporting Marketing, Growth, or GTM teams, including CDPs, customer segmentation, or campaign orchestration.
- Preferred: experience with reverse ETL tools such as Hightouch or Census; data pipeline tooling such as Airbyte, Fivetran, or Databricks; or marketing automation platforms such as Iterable, Braze, or Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
- Preferred: familiarity with real-time event streaming, high-throughput messaging architectures, third-party API integrations, and large-scale data systems.
- Preferred: experience leading medium-to-large projects and contributing to long-term platform design decisions.
Benefits
- Remote work from anywhere in the U.S., with East/West Coast time zone requirements.
- Regular in-person team onsites, with most teams meeting once or twice per quarter for 2–4 consecutive days.
- Competitive compensation with target bonuses and annual equity grants.
- 401(k) or Group Retirement Savings Plan with a company match, subject to stated limits.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan for eligible U.S. employees.
- Medical, dental, vision, wellness resources, and Health Savings Account contributions for eligible U.S. plans.
- 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.
- Financial wellness resources, annual wellness allowance, and annual productivity allowance.
- Team events, employee resource groups, and office perks including catered lunches and stocked micro-kitchens.
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.