Senior Software Engineer, Borrower Experience

Upstart is a leading AI lending marketplace focused on reducing the cost and complexity of borrowing for Americans. The Senior Software Engineer will play a key role in designing and developing features for a loan servicing platform, ensuring an optimal experience for borrowers and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

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

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
• 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
• Experience with Ruby on Rails or Kotlin