5 months ago
Base Salary
$214k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build AI-native applications and tools that accelerate go-to-market operations, including pipeline management, performance analysis, and workflow automation.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to translate business workflows into scalable technical solutions, then prototype, ship, and maintain them.
- Own systems end to end across frontend interfaces, backend services, databases, automation pipelines, and AI orchestration layers.
- Improve reliability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency while reducing manual work.
- Design, evaluate, and iterate prompts for AI-powered systems to improve output reliability and quality.
- Lead projects, document design decisions and tradeoffs, communicate progress, and support teammate growth.
Requirements
- Around 8 years of professional software engineering experience or comparable depth, with full-stack expertise in React/TypeScript plus backend and database development.
- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools and building applications with LLMs, AI APIs, or modern AI frameworks.
- Experience designing and owning internal platforms or operational systems end to end.
- Familiarity with deployment and infrastructure platforms such as Supabase and Vercel.
- Strong product intuition, architecture skills, communication, and collaboration abilities.
- Experience leading projects and delivering measurable outcomes.
- Preferred experience includes Salesforce or HubSpot, marketplace or high-growth SaaS environments, retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, embedding-based search, and Snowflake.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on Day 1.
- Equity through ISOs, 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.
- Hybrid work based in Austin, Chicago, DC, or NYC, with in-office attendance required Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday and possible additional attendance based on project needs or policy changes.
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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.