Engineering Manager , Upside
$185-225k
+ Equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
Mobile reward application for retail spending
Be an early applicant
Mobile reward application for retail spending
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$185-225k
+ Equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To advance the economic power of people living and working in the real world.
Role
Who you are
- Have 3+ years of engineering management experience, ideally across mobile or distributed API domains
- Thrive in environments where you’re asked to scale teams, elevate systems, and solve ambiguity in equal measure
- Have familiarity with mobile and API infrastructure (AWS preferred), analytical and SDLC tools (e.g., Mixpanel, Runway)
- Have hands-on experience or familiarity with mobile and API development best practices, including serverless, event-driven, REST, microservices, MVI, and Clean architecture patterns
- Value clarity over consensus and help teams stay aligned through high-change, high-growth conditions
- Are interested in integrating generative AI into team workflows and engineering processes to improve delivery speed, quality, and developer productivity, and foster continuous improvement across the development lifecycle
What the job involves
- As engineering leaders at Upside, we strive to gather the right information from those around us and take the right calculated risks
- In doing so, we hope to help teams quickly make key decisions that will ship high quality software with the most delightful experience possible to our users
- We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Consumer Core team, a full-stack group responsible for Upside’s core functionality within our Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) front-end and our Python + Java driven back-end
- This team delivers the architectural foundations and security patterns that empower our Consumer full-stack teams to build scalable features across the entire funnel
- This leader will combine technical competence with people-first leadership to drive operational excellence, foster growth, and scale the systems that underpin our primary product platform
- This role will also work closely with other engineering leaders to plan and guide organizational and technical strategy to support both our Consumer and Partnerships applications and systems
- Create a safe, collaborative team environment. You name problems and invite open discussion, which motivates your team to do their best work
- Operate with a first-team mindset. You lean in when important areas need help, regardless of whether it's “your” domain, and prioritize the success of the whole organization
- Raise the bar. You identify and influence improvements in quality, performance, speed of execution, and engineering standards
- Grow talent. You coach your engineers, recognize their achievements, and help them develop skills that will benefit them and Upside for years to come
- Set clarity and empower autonomy. You ensure expectations and direction are clearly articulated so that individuals and teams can operate with independence, confidence, and creativity
- Clearly defines and maintains the team’s domain boundaries across authentication, event architecture, user research and analytical workflows, internal mobile tooling, app security support, mobile FinOps, and cross-team repos, while leaving room for evolution as Upside’s needs change
- Champion system-level quality by identifying and addressing gaps in reliability, scalability, security, and performance across our app and API stack
- Ensure the consumer app platform is secure, cost-efficient, and production-ready, and that the development stacks and tooling enable self-service, repeatable, and trusted workflows
- Oversee team AI adoption and general exploration strategy to keep our KMP, Python, and Java platforms on the frontier of industry-leading tools and integrations
- Act as the primary point of contact for internal partners (e.g. Product, Design, Security, and Data Science), ensuring platform capabilities support evolving business needs
- Represent the Consumer Core team in cross-functional planning, technical councils, and long-term roadmap discussions
Our take
Loyalty systems, vouchers, and other special offers have a proven track record at winning over new customers for businesses. However, customers can be reluctant to sign up due to the sheer number of these schemes. Upside exists to unify these loyalty schemes with a single flexible reward app.
While retail reward platforms are nothing new, Upside functions more like a marketplace, linking participating businesses to potential customers. It also rewards customers with cash back on eligible purchases, a more flexible reward than is traditional in loyalty schemes.
With over 50,000 businesses enrolled and 30 million app users, Upside has grown into a major player in this sector. The company is well-funded and ever-expanding its offering, with a product that is increasingly appreciated by consumers in an expensive world, as well as the businesses who depend on their custom.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Apr 2022
$65m
SERIES D
Total funding: $65m
Company benefits
- Health and Wellness - We’re happy to provide our team members with generous health, vision, and dental insurance options
- Lunch - We cover the cost of lunch everyday for team members onsite to enhance our team building and encourage collaboration. Plus local restaurants appreciate it!
- Stock Options - Our team’s success is our company’s success, and we should all have a stake in that. We’re glad to offer our team members valuable stock options
- Unlimited PTO - Yes, you read that right. When you need time off, we’ve got you covered
Company HQ
Dupont Circle, Washington, DC
Leadership
Alex Kinnier
(CEO & Co-Founder)Experience as Group Product Manager for Google from 2005 to 2008. Senior Vice President of Products and Engineering for Opower from 2012 to 2015.
Wayne Lin
(CPO & Co-Founder)Experience as Product Manager for Google from 2005 to 2010. Vice President of Product Management & Analytics for Opower from 2010 to 2015.
Rick McPhee
(Co-Founder)Experience as Vice President of Engineering for HP's Fortify Software from 2008 to 2012. Senior Vice President of Engineering for Opower from 2012 to 2015.
Joanna Kochaniak
(Engineer & Co-Founder)Experience as Programmer Analyst for the Institute for Physical Sciences from 2007 to 2010. Lead Software Engineer for Opower from 2010 to 2015.
Jan Rubio
(Designer & Co-Founder)Experience as Research Assistant for George Washington University from 2009 to 2011. Senior Software Engineer for Opower from 2011 to 2016.
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