7 days ago
Base Salary
$167k - $231k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve high-performance real-time pricing systems for Upstart products.
- Own complex software projects from technical design through production delivery while balancing scalability, reliability, correctness, and iteration speed.
- Translate data science, modeling, product, and business requirements into reliable software solutions.
- Improve the flexibility, maintainability, observability, and resilience of pricing services.
- Contribute to standards for system design, testing, monitoring, and operational excellence.
- Support engineers through design reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent, plus four years of software engineering experience.
- Production software experience with Python and Java, Kotlin, or another strongly typed programming language.
- Experience designing, building, and operating scalable APIs, distributed systems, or microservices in a cloud environment such as AWS or GCP.
- Experience owning technical design and delivery of complex software projects from development through production.
- Experience building production systems with scalability, latency, reliability, or correctness requirements.
- Preferred qualifications include fintech or financial systems knowledge; financial mathematics, statistics, machine learning platforms, or decisioning systems experience; experience with revenue-, profitability-, risk-, or product-critical systems; cloud-native architecture, platform engineering, continuous integration and deployment, or infrastructure as code experience; and experience productionizing models, decisioning logic, or experimentation capabilities.
Benefits
- Remote work within eligible US locations and Canada, with East/West Coast time-zone requirements and most teams meeting onsite once or twice per quarter for 2–4 consecutive days.
- Target bonuses, annual equity grants, and an employee stock purchase plan for eligible US employees.
- 401(k) or Canadian Group Retirement Savings Plan with a company match of $2 for every $1 contributed, up to $15,000 annually.
- Medical, dental, vision, wellness resources, supplemental Canadian health coverage, and eligible US Health Savings Account contributions.
- 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, annual productivity allowance, team events, employee resource groups, and onsite office perks.
- Upstart is not currently able to hire employees based in Quebec.
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.