Upstart is looking to solve the business problem of ensuring smooth loan management, optimizing collections, and cultivating strong customer relationships through the development of a cutting-edge loan servicing platform.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Technical leadership experience with deep understanding of code release, deployment orchestration / rollout mechanisms, logging, instrumentation, monitoring, and alerting in a microservices environment
- Experience designing, developing, and deploying microservices-based applications
- Experience with Ruby on Rails or Kotlin
Responsibilities
- Lead successful cross-team and/or multi-quarter, multi-engineer projects
- Move quickly to drive both existing and greenfield projects forward, while always keeping our end users in mind
- Proactively search out ways to expand impact that extends well beyond the Jira board
- Turn team-specific projects into opportunities to up-level the team and the org’s tech platform
- Help us continue building our engineering team and keep Upstart a genuinely awesome place to work
Other
- Minimum 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability for the quality and timely delivery of work
- Demonstrated ability to take feedback well and actively incorporate it into work, showing a growth mindset and a desire to continuously improve
- Ability to thrive both in self-directed work environments and in collaborative settings, contributing positively to team dynamics
- Travel requirements: majority of work can be accomplished remotely, with regular in-person onsites (1-2 times per quarter for 2-4 consecutive days)
- Degree requirements: not specified
- Visa requirements: not specified
- Soft skills: strong sense of ownership, accountability, growth mindset, ability to work in self-directed and collaborative settings
