Senior Software Engineer - Enablement

(Draper, Utah, In-Office)

Upbound Group, Inc. (effective February 27, 2023: NASDAQ: UPBD) is an omni-channel platform company committed to elevating financial opportunity for all through innovative, inclusive, and technology-driven financial solutions that address the evolving needs and aspirations of consumers. The Company’s customer-facing operating units include industry-leading brands such as Acima, Rent-A-Center, and Brigit that facilitate consumer transactions across a wide range of store-based and digital retail channels, including over 2,400 company branded retail units across the United States, Mexico and Puerto Rico.

Upbound Group, Inc. is headquartered in Plano, Texas.

As a Software Engineer IV in Upbound’s engineering department, specializing in
Ruby on Rails
, you will play a critical leadership role in defining the technical architecture, evolution, and reliability of our platform services. You will be the technical guide on a team of talented engineers, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable, fault-tolerant, and secure software solutions while setting engineering standards and aligning cross-team technical strategies.

• Serving as the primary technical guide across the software lifecycle, steering architecture, design decisions, and engineering execution.
• Architecting and implementing high-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed solutions and APIs primarily using
  Ruby on Rails
  .
• Defining architectural standards, service boundaries, and non-functional requirements (high availability, fault tolerance, observability, and sub-second latency).
• Partnering closely with delivery managers, product managers, architects, and engineering leadership to break down ambiguous business requirements into executable technical roadmaps.
• Driving code health, automated testing rigor, and engineering discipline through rigorous code reviews and system architecture reviews.
• Leading root‑cause analysis (RCA) on complex production issues and performance bottlenecks, implementing long‑term architectural remediations.
• Mentoring and coaching mid‑level and senior engineers (Engineers II and III) to accelerate their growth and raise the technical bar across the department.
• Evaluating emerging technologies, architectural patterns, and frameworks to keep Upbound's platform modern and competitive.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience in the industry.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and operating mission-critical distributed systems.
• Deep hands‑on expertise in Ruby and Ruby on Rails
  , with strong knowledge of framework internals, memory profiling, and high‑concurrency scaling.
• Proven track record of architecting scalable distributed systems and resilient microservices.
• Advanced expertise in relational database architecture, schema optimization, and performance tuning (
  PostgreSQL
  ), as well as distributed caching and No
  
  SQL databases.
• Proven experience building cloud-native solutions on
  AWS
  utilizing container orchestration (
  Docker, Kubernetes
  ).
• Strong mastery of software architecture principles, domain‑driven design, and event‑driven patterns.
• Proven track record of technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and influencing architectural decisions across multiple teams.
• Strong understanding of security best practices, CI/CD pipeline automation, and Agile delivery.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical trade‑offs to both technical peers and business stakeholders.

• Preferred Skill:
  Elixir
  – Hands‑on experience with or working…