Base Salary
$167k - $231k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead successful cross-team and multi-quarter projects involving multiple engineers.
- Develop and advance existing and greenfield backend projects with end users in mind.
- Identify opportunities to expand impact beyond assigned team projects.
- Turn team projects into opportunities to improve the engineering team’s technical platform.
- Build scalable loan-servicing, workflow-automation, system-integration, and customer-service capabilities.
- Contribute to building the engineering team and improving the organization’s working environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, plus 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- At least 3 years of experience developing backend applications with Kotlin, Java, or another object-oriented programming language.
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems with service-to-service APIs and event-driven architectures.
- Experience building and maintaining scalable backend services that process business-critical or financial data in production.
- Experience contributing to decision engines that integrate with machine learning models to evaluate signals.
- Experience writing production-quality code supported by automated testing, monitoring, and observability practices.
- Preferred experience integrating systems with third parties, handling large amounts of data, and working with SQL, data warehouses, or other database technologies.
- Preferred experience designing, developing, and deploying microservices-based applications.
- Demonstrated ownership, accountability, receptiveness to feedback, continuous-improvement mindset, and ability to work independently and collaboratively.
Benefits
- Remote work within the applicable U.S. or Canada time zones, with most teams meeting onsite once or twice per quarter for two to four consecutive days.
- Competitive base pay, target bonus opportunities, and annual equity grants vesting quarterly.
- Retirement savings benefits with a company match of $2 for every $1 contributed, up to $15,000 annually, subject to country-specific terms.
- Medical, dental, vision, wellness resources, and supplemental Canadian health coverage.
- Health Savings Account contributions for eligible U.S. plans.
- Life insurance and disability coverage.
- Paid time off, sick leave, company holidays, and paid family and parental leave.
- Family-centered fertility, parenthood, and caregiving benefits.
- Employee Assistance Program and financial wellness resources.
- Annual wellness and productivity allowances.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan for eligible U.S. employees.
- Team events, company updates, employee resource groups, and office perks including catered lunches and stocked micro-kitchens.
- The company is not currently able to hire in Quebec.
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