Software Engineer, Marketing Platform

Overview

About Upstart

Upstart is a leading AI lending marketplace partnering with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit. By leveraging Upstart's AI marketplace, Upstart-powered banks and credit unions can have higher approval rates and lower loss rates across races, ages, and genders, while simultaneously delivering the exceptional digital-first lending experience their customers demand. More than two-thirds of Upstart loans are approved instantly and are fully automated.

Upstart is a digital-first company, which means that most Upstarters live and work anywhere in the United States. However, we also have offices in San Mateo, California;
Columbus, Ohio; and Austin, Texas.

Most Upstarters join us because they connect with our mission of enabling access to effortless credit based on true risk. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Upstart, we’d love to hear from you!

Upstart's Marketing Platform team is developing innovative solutions and strategies that drive efficient and scalable marketing outreach, empowering us to effectively engage with our users while having a direct impact on Upstart's mission and growth. The team is responsible for the creation and evolution of the systems, tools, and integrations to engage with existing users and attract new customers.

As a Software Engineer on the Marketing Platform team at Upstart, you will be instrumental in helping us create the tools and systems to target the right users with the right content at the right time. You will work closely with cross-functional counterparts in Analytics, Lifecycle and Performance Marketing, Machine Learning, and Product to create a scalable marketing platform that mobilizes Upstart’s owned channels to drive users to our products efficiently.

• Work with cross functional partners including product managers, designers, machine learning engineers, analytics, and marketing managers to design and deliver high-quality products to be served across various marketing channels
• Design and build technology for serving marketing content to users via scalable and personalized landing pages, emails, push notifications, and in-product content
• Make architectural contributions and decisions to improve the reliability of our software and maintainability of our code base

• 4+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Ruby, Java, Python, or Java script
• Experience building scalable APIs and microservices in a cloud-based environment (e.g., AWS, GCP).
• Experience leading small to medium sized projects over multiple months and/or multiple engineers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work in a distributed team

• Experience working on systems that integrate with 3rd parties and/or ingest, store, expose large amounts of data
• Professional experience working with Ruby on Rails and/or Kotlin
• Experience with SQL, data warehouses, or other database technologies
• Experience working with marketing technology or growth engineering

Remote, San Mateo, Columbus, Austin

This team operates across all U.S. time zones.

This team has regular on-site collaboration sessions. These occur 3 days per quarter at an Upstart office. If you need to travel to make these meetups, Upstart will cover all travel related expenses.

• Competitive Compensation (base + bonus & equity)
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with Health Savings Account contributions from Upstart
• 401(k) with 100% company match up to $4,500 and immediate vesting and after-tax savings
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Life and disability insurance
• Generous holiday, vacation, sick and safety leave
• Supportive parental, family care, and military leave programs
• Annual wellness, technology & ergonomic reimbursement programs
• Social activities including team events and onsites, all-company updates, employee resource groups (ERGs), and other interest groups such as book clubs, fitness, investing, and volunteering
• Catered lunches +…