2 months ago
Base Salary
$214k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build the first version of an AI-native platform for go-to-market teams, including agentic orchestration, automation, and revenue-team interfaces.
- Embed with revenue teams to understand their workflows and ship systems that materially improve how the work is performed.
- Own the platform’s architecture, technical direction, tooling choices, and engineering patterns.
- Move prototypes into production quickly and iterate as AI capabilities evolve.
- Measure success by business outcomes and the value unlocked for revenue teams.
- Partner with security and infrastructure teams to ensure the platform is sound and supportable.
- Document technical decisions and tradeoffs for future engineers.
Requirements
- Approximately 8 years of staff-level engineering experience or comparable depth, with a history of owning systems end to end.
- Experience building greenfield systems, early-stage products, or internal platforms from zero to one.
- Production experience building with LLMs and AI APIs, including prompt design, output evaluation, and reliability iteration.
- Fluency with AI-assisted development tools.
- Strong technical judgment, adaptability, and ability to refactor as requirements change.
- Interest in and curiosity about revenue and operations workflows.
- Ability to work independently amid ambiguity and bring stakeholders along.
- Clear communication with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Preferred: familiarity with CRM and revenue data models such as Salesforce or HubSpot.
- Preferred: experience as an early or founding startup engineer or builder of an internal tooling function.
- Preferred: familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, embedding-based search, marketplaces, high-growth environments, or Snowflake.
- The company is language agnostic; current prototypes use React, TypeScript, and Python.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on Day 1.
- Equity through ISOs and a 401(k) program.
- Family planning programs and paid parental leave.
- Physical fitness and wellness memberships plus emotional and mental health support programs.
- Unlimited PTO, 10 paid federal holidays, and an annual week-long Winter Break.
- Flexible work environment.
- Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees.
- Employee Resource Groups and a Learning and Development stipend.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Upside
Upside builds a consumer cash‑back marketplace for gas, groceries, and dining, paired with a performance platform that drives incremental, attributable sales for brick‑and‑mortar retailers. Merchants fund targeted offers and pay based on measured profit, while consumers redeem through the Upside mobile app to earn cash back. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Washington, DC, the company serves millions of users and facilitates billions of dollars in in‑store commerce annually.