Upstart is looking to evolve the systems that power its loan pricing across multiple product lines by designing and implementing highly scalable, low-latency services that convert ML underwriting outputs into accurate risk and profitability measures, while helping define the future of Upstart's pricing platform.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software development experience building scalable public or consumer-facing products.
- High level of proficiency coding in production with Python, Kotlin, Go, or languages with similar syntax.
- Proven ability to independently own and deliver complex, multi-month engineering projects in fast-paced environments.
- Experience designing and building scalable APIs and microservices in a cloud-based environment (AWS or GCP).
- Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on scalability, performance, and system reliability.
- Deep experience with distributed systems, cloud-native development, and advanced CI/CD pipelines (infrastructure-as-code focus).
- Background in finance / fintech, financial mathematics, statistics, or machine learning.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of scalable, high-performance services that enable real-time pricing decisions across multiple products.
- Collaborate with data scientists and product managers to translate business goals into robust technical solutions.
- Drive architectural improvements in the pricing platform to support rapid growth, new products, and evolving modeling needs.
- Mentor and coach engineers across the team, elevating best practices in system design, testing, and operational excellence.
- Ensure the quality and reliability of our pricing engines through comprehensive testing, code reviews, and production monitoring.
- Champion improvements in developer experience, automation, and observability to increase team velocity and platform resilience.
Other
- Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring and coaching engineers, influencing technical direction, and raising the bar for the team.
- Exhibits a bias for action and comfort navigating ambiguity while driving towards impactful outcomes.
- History of thriving in diverse work environments: both collaborative and self-directed; remote and in-person.
- Recognized as a subject matter expert or technical owner for a critical domain, with a passion for sharing knowledge and best practices.
