11 hours ago
Base Salary
$167k - $231k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the design, delivery, launch, and long-term maintenance of large backend and full-stack initiatives.
- Set technical direction for service architecture, APIs, data models, integrations, and the team’s 3–6 month roadmap.
- Partner with product, frontend, design, platform, and backend engineers to build scalable systems for borrower needs.
- Improve engineering quality across testing, data integrity, observability, security, reliability, and operational practices.
- Break down ambiguous problems into testable plans and make tradeoffs involving scope, scalability, performance, reliability, and customer experience.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance.
- Contribute to the use of AI in development workflows and product capabilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, plus 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Deep proficiency designing and building backend services and APIs with a language such as Python, Java, Kotlin, Go, Ruby, or Node.js.
- Strong experience with service architecture, API design, data modeling, relational or non-relational databases, and distributed systems.
- Demonstrated ability to independently lead large, business-critical backend or full-stack projects in production.
- Experience with testing, monitoring, incident response, performance optimization, and long-term operational ownership.
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous environments with evolving requirements and system boundaries.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills for explaining technical tradeoffs and aligning product and engineering partners.
- Preferred qualifications include technical leadership for product teams or critical systems, consumer-facing or high-volume transactional products, fintech or regulated financial products, asynchronous or event-driven systems, cloud infrastructure, messaging systems, CI/CD workflows, experimentation, feature flags, and generative AI.
Benefits
- Remote role with digital-first flexibility across the United States and Canada, with most teams meeting in person once or twice per quarter for 2–4 consecutive days.
- Health coverage including medical, dental, vision, wellness resources, and eligible Health Savings Account contributions.
- Retirement savings plans with company matching, plus an Employee Stock Purchase Plan for eligible US employees.
- Target bonuses, equity grants, paid time off, sick leave, company holidays, and paid family and parental leave.
- Life insurance, disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, family-centered benefits, financial wellness resources, and annual wellness and productivity allowances.
- Team events, company updates, employee resource groups, and onsite office perks including catered lunches and stocked micro-kitchens.
- Canada-based employees cannot currently be hired in Quebec.
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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.