Key skills
Software engineeringArchitectural designTechnical leadershipProduct managementCross-team collaborationAnalytical mindsetMentoringCommunication skillsAI
About this role
Upstart is a leading AI lending marketplace focused on reducing the cost and complexity of borrowing for Americans. As a Principal Engineer on the Capital Supply team, you will guide the architectural evolution of Capital Supply systems and collaborate with various teams to drive business impact and innovation.
Responsibilities:
- Help define the Capital Supply engineering’s longer term technical roadmap ensuring alignment with business objectives
- Guide the architectural evolution of Capital Supply systems with an emphasis on systems shared across the Capital Market engineering teams
- Uncover and drive alignment across complex technical requirements, designs, trade-offs, influencing product direction
- Proactively evaluate, prototype, and roll out new technologies/frameworks to help cultivate a culture of innovation
- Partner with product leaders to shape product direction and drive business impact across all Capital Supply products
- Lead from the front, while mentoring and developing technical leaders
- Identify and prioritize high leverage and impactful opportunities
Requirements:
- 10+ years software engineering experience
- Strong technical and software engineering fundamentals including a demonstrated ability to build and own large-scale, highly available consumer products
- Ability to explain complex business and technical concepts to all audiences
- Experience leading large cross-team initiatives at companies that have gone through periods of rapid business or organizational growth
- Track record of successfully mentoring and developing technical leaders
- Has defined and executed on longer term (multi-quarter +) technological visions or strategies for multi-team organizations
- Has driven initiatives of significant depth or breadth with demonstrated results in engineering process, technology platforms, or overall productivity of others
- Ability to identify gaps in organizational knowledge, tools, and practices and produce and execute on plans to address those gaps
- Ability to influence and lead without direct authority
- Strong product and analytical mindset that allows you to think in terms of ROI, risk, and trade offs