Key skills
AIMentoring
About this role
Upstart is a leading AI lending marketplace focused on reducing the cost and complexity of borrowing for Americans. The Principal Engineer will collaborate with various teams to define the technical roadmap and drive impactful initiatives within the Capital Marketplace team.
Responsibilities:
- Help define the Capital Marketplace engineering’s longer term technical roadmap ensuring alignment with business objectives
- Guide the architectural evolution of Capital Marketplace 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 Marketplace products
- Lead from the front, while mentoring and developing technical leaders
- Identify and prioritize high leverage and impactful opportunities
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics, or a related field (or its equivalent)
- 8 years of 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