Upstart is looking to expand access to affordable credit by leveraging AI lending marketplace, and the software engineer will help build and grow Upstart's 2 newest products: HELOC and Mortgage.
Requirements
- 4+ years professional experience in fullstack software
- 4+ years proficiency in Kotlin, Java, or C
- Some hands-on experience with a JavaScript framework like React
- Some hands-on experience with SQL databases and domain modeling
- Experience with AWS, Kafka, Spring Boot, Next.js, Kubernetes
Responsibilities
- Proactively search out ways to make an impact beyond the Jira board
- Turn feature-specific tasks into opportunities to up-level the team's codebase and product
- Know the product intimately enough to propose changes to requirements when we need to find a middle path
- Propose and deliver new ideas that achieve meaningful improvements to our team's metrics
- Contribute in a meaningful way to quality improvements within our team
Other
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Preference for face-time and synchronous collaboration
- Comfortable challenging authority
- Thrives in environments where you are expected to think like an owner and make decisions like one
- Travel requirements: roughly once per quarter (~3 days at a time) in one of our main offices (Columbus, Austin, or San Mateo)
