Senior Software Engineer, API Enablement
Upstart
About Upstart
Upstart is a leading AI lending marketplace partnering with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit. By leveraging Upstart's AI marketplace, Upstart-powered banks and credit unions can have higher approval rates and lower loss rates across races, ages, and genders, while simultaneously delivering the exceptional digital-first lending experience their customers demand. More than two-thirds of Upstart loans are approved instantly and are fully automated.
Upstart is a digital-first company, which means that most Upstarters live and work anywhere in the United States. However, we also have offices in San Mateo, California; Columbus, Ohio; and Austin, Texas.
Most Upstarters join us because they connect with our mission of enabling access to effortless credit based on true risk. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Upstart, we’d love to hear from you!
The Team
Upstart’s Frontend Platform & Experimentation team champions frontend excellence at Upstart. We build tools and services that are used internally by the engineering, design and product teams. Our mission is to provide easy to use, modern tooling to our consumers so they can build the best user experience for all Upstart customers.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Frontend Platform & Experimentation team, you will lead the development and maintenance of Upstart’s experimentation and feature flagging libraries and any associated programs related to managing their lifecycle. You will be responsible for creating the best developer experience for other product team engineers to help them effectively use these libraries and establish best practices. You may also interact with product managers and analysts to help them effectively use data collected from running the experiments.
Position Location - This role is available in the following locations: Remote, San Mateo, Columbus, Austin
Time Zone Requirements - This team operates on the East/West Coast time zones.
Travel Requirements - As a digital first company, the majority of your work can be accomplished remotely. This team also has regular onsite collaboration sessions. These occur roughly once per quarter (~3 days at a time) in one of our main offices (Columbus, OH, Austin, TX or San Mateo, CA). If you need to travel to make these meetups, Upstart will cover all travel related expenses.
How you’ll make an impact:
- Lead successful projects working collaboratively with engineering team members and cross-functional partners.
- Make thoughtful architectural decisions to improve the quality of our software
- Propose and deliver new ideas that achieve meaningful improvements to our team’s metrics
- Collaborate with stakeholders to find solutions to our most challenging problems
What we’re looking for:
- Minimum requirements:
- 7+ years of professional full stack software development experience. We primarily use Ruby (Rails), Kotlin (Spring), and TypeScript (React) but are open to experience with different stacks.
- Some experience with modern front-end frameworks like React, Angular, etc.
- Able to translate complex business requirements into system architecture and technical designs
- Prior experience building SDKs used for improving Developer Productivity or Developer Experience across multiple engineering teams
- Preferred qualifications:
- Experience working with feature flagging and experimentation platforms like LaunchDarkly, Optimizely, etc.
- Experience with cloud computing platforms and services such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- End-to-end ownership. Be comfortable fully owning your features and contributing everywhere in the stack to implement them.
- Ability to execute independently and deliver projects of varying complexity and sizes with minimal direction.
What you'll love:
- Competitive Compensation (base + bonus & equity)
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with Health Savings Account contributions from Upstart
- 401(k) with 100% company match up to $4,500 and immediate vesting and after-tax savings
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Life and disability insurance
- Generous holiday, vacation, sick and safety leave
- Supportive parental, family care, and military leave programs
- Annual wellness, technology & ergonomic reimbursement programs
- Social activities including team events and onsites, all-company updates, employee resource groups (ERGs), and other interest groups such as book clubs, fitness, investing, and volunteering
- Catered lunches + snacks & drinks when working in offices
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At Upstart, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. The anticipated base salary for this position is expected to be within the below range. Your actual base pay will depend on your geographic location–with our “digital first” philosophy, Upstart uses compensation regions that vary depending on location. Individual pay is also determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
In addition, Upstart provides employees with target bonuses, equity compensation, and generous benefits packages (including medical, dental, vision, and 401k).
Upstart is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to ensuring that underrepresented classes receive better access to affordable credit, and are just as committed to embracing diversity and inclusion in our hiring practices. We celebrate all cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, and know that we can only become better together.
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing an application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please email candidate_accommodations@upstart.com