3 months ago
Base Salary
$167k - $224k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the design, planning, delivery, launch, and long-term maintenance of large frontend and full-stack initiatives.
- Set technical direction for frontend architecture and full-stack patterns while owning a 3–6 month roadmap.
- Partner with product, design, and backend engineers to build scalable, high-quality borrower experiences.
- Improve component and API design, state management, testing, observability, performance, and operational rigor.
- Break down ambiguous problems into clear, testable plans and use data to guide scope, performance, and user-experience tradeoffs.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance.
- Contribute to effective uses of AI in development workflows and product capabilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 6 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Deep proficiency with React and TypeScript, including component architecture, state management, performance optimization, and consuming REST or GraphQL APIs.
- Full-stack experience designing and building backend services and APIs with Python, Java, Kotlin, Ruby, or Node.js.
- Experience independently leading large, business-critical frontend or full-stack projects into production.
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous environments and communicate technical tradeoffs with product, design, and engineering partners.
- Preferred experience as a frontend or full-stack technical lead for a product team or business-critical product surface.
- Preferred experience building large-scale consumer products with attention to performance, accessibility, and user experience.
- Preferred background in fintech, lending, payments, or other regulated financial products.
- Preferred experience with experimentation, A/B testing, feature flagging, modern frontend tooling, testing frameworks, and generative AI in products or engineering workflows.
Benefits
- Remote, digital-first work arrangement available in the U.S. and Canada, with most teams meeting in person once or twice per quarter for 2–4 consecutive days.
- Target bonuses, annual equity grants vesting quarterly, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan for eligible U.S. employees.
- Retirement savings plans 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 Health Savings Account contributions for eligible U.S. plans.
- 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, and annual productivity allowance.
- Team events, employee resource groups, catered lunches, and stocked micro-kitchens at company offices.
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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.