Senior Software Engineer, Core Pricing

Upstart is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Core Pricing team. The role designs and builds scalable, reliable pricing systems for lending decisions, owning technical projects and improving pricing-service architecture in partnership with engineering, data science, product, and business teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and evolve high-performance, real-time pricing systems that support critical lending decisions across Upstart products
• Own complex engineering projects from technical design through delivery, balancing scalability, reliability, correctness, and speed of iteration
• Partner with data scientists, product managers, and business stakeholders to translate modeling and business requirements into reliable software solutions
• Identify and implement architectural improvements that increase the flexibility, maintainability, observability, and resilience of pricing services
• Contribute to technical standards for system design, testing, monitoring, and operational excellence within the Core Pricing team
• Support other engineers through design reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing while contributing to sound technical decisions across the team

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or its equivalent, plus 4 years of software engineering experience
• Experience writing production software in Python and working with Java, Kotlin, or another strongly typed programming language
• Experience designing, building, and operating scalable APIs, distributed systems, or microservices in a cloud environment such as AWS or GCP
• Experience owning the technical design and delivery of complex software projects from development through production
• Experience building production systems with requirements related to scalability, latency, reliability, or correctness
• Knowledge of fintech, financial systems, financial mathematics, statistics, machine learning platforms, or decisioning systems
• Experience working on business-critical systems that affect revenue, profitability, risk, or core product outcomes
• Experience with distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, platform engineering, continuous integration and deployment, or infrastructure as code
• Experience partnering with data science and product teams to productionize models, decisioning logic, or experimentation capabilities
• Ability to work effectively across engineering and non-engineering teams on technically complex initiatives