Base Salary
$167k - $231k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable, high-performance services supporting real-time pricing decisions across multiple products.
- Collaborate with data scientists, product managers, and business stakeholders to translate goals into technical solutions.
- Drive architectural improvements to support platform growth, new products, and evolving modeling needs.
- Mentor and coach engineers while improving system design, testing, and operational practices.
- Ensure pricing engine quality and reliability through testing, code reviews, and production monitoring.
- Improve developer experience, automation, and observability to increase team velocity and platform resilience.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software development experience building scalable public or consumer-facing products.
- High proficiency writing production Python and some experience with Java, Kotlin, or similar languages.
- Experience independently owning and delivering complex, multi-month engineering projects.
- Experience designing and building scalable APIs and microservices in AWS or GCP.
- Strong focus on scalability, performance, system reliability, testing, monitoring, automation, and observability.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring and coaching engineers, influencing technical direction, and serving as a technical owner.
- Preferred background in finance, fintech, financial mathematics, statistics, or machine learning.
- Preferred experience with distributed systems, cloud-native development, and infrastructure-focused CI/CD pipelines.
- Open-source contributions, technical talks, or mentorship are preferred.
Benefits
- Remote US role operating across all U.S. time zones.
- Regular onsite collaboration sessions occur three days per quarter, with travel expenses covered by Upstart.
- Base salary range is $166,900-$230,900 USD in the United States or $153,000-$190,000 CAD in Canada, with bonuses, equity, and benefits.
- Retirement savings plans include a company match, plus an employee stock purchase plan for eligible U.S. employees.
- Medical, dental, vision, wellness, life insurance, disability, paid time off, family and parental leave, and employee assistance benefits are provided.
- Annual wellness and productivity allowances, team events, employee resource groups, and onsite office perks are available.
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