5 months ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$142k - $196k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain scalable backend systems and data pipelines for audience segmentation and marketing attribution workflows.
- Partner with product managers, marketers, and engineers to deliver data solutions supporting customer acquisition and conversion.
- Extend data infrastructure for increasing data volumes, evolving requirements, and new integrations.
- Implement monitoring, validation, and guardrail mechanisms to improve data quality across critical datasets.
- Participate in architecture, access-pattern, and platform-scalability discussions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent experience, plus at least three years of software engineering experience.
- At least three years of experience building and maintaining backend distributed systems or large-scale data platforms.
- Production experience with data processing systems, databases, or data pipelines.
- Experience implementing fault tolerance, monitoring, and observability practices for backend systems.
- Experience collaborating with engineering, product, or business stakeholders to deliver technical solutions.
- Knowledge of data modeling and schema design for large-scale data systems is preferred.
- Experience with marketing technology, attribution, or customer segmentation platforms is preferred.
- Familiarity with data governance, privacy, and PII security considerations is preferred.
- Ability to balance short-term feature delivery with long-term platform maintainability and scalability is preferred.
- Experience contributing to architecture discussions and improving engineering practices across teams is preferred.
Benefits
- Remote role available in the United States, with most work performed remotely and team onsites typically once or twice per quarter for 2–4 consecutive days.
- Base compensation includes bonus opportunities and annual equity grants.
- 401(k) or Group Retirement Savings Plan with a company match of $2 for every $1 contributed, up to $15,000 annually.
- Medical, dental, vision, wellness resources, and health savings account contributions for eligible US 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.
- Annual wellness and productivity allowances, financial wellness resources, team events, and employee resource groups.
- Office perks include catered lunches and stocked micro-kitchens in Bay Area, Austin, Columbus, and New York City offices.
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.