Director of Engineering, Upstart
Platform Engineering
$217.4-300.9k
Offers bonus, equity and ESPP
More information about location
AI lending marketplace
Open for applications
AI lending marketplace
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$217.4-300.9k
Offers bonus, equity and ESPP
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable effortless credit based on true risk.
Role
Who you are
- If you are energized by the impact you can make at Upstart, we’d love to hear from you!
- Extensive experience in software engineering, with demonstrated success leading teams that deliver platform-level solutions
- Deep expertise in developer productivity frameworks, design systems, and modern front end frameworks
- Robust expertise in cloud infrastructure, APIs and gateways, event-driven systems, authentication/authorization
- Proven ability to lead large-scale projects and influence adoption of shared systems across engineering organizations
- Strong technical judgment with the ability to balance speed, scalability, and security
- Experience managing senior engineers and driving outcomes in cross-functional environments
Desirable
- Track record of building and scaling platform teams in fast-moving, high-growth environments
- Experience influencing executive-level stakeholders and ensuring adoption of cross-cutting solutions
- Familiarity with experimentation frameworks and backend event/data processing systems
What the job involves
- The Platform Engineering team builds and maintains the foundational systems that power all of Upstart’s engineering teams and customer-facing products
- This includes our API Gateway, Event Bus, gRPC stack, Frontend Platform, Design System, and secure Login and Identity solutions
- The team’s charter is to deliver the communication fabric, authentication frameworks, and next-generation design systems that scale our products and enable engineers to move faster with confidence
- While the team executes well today, there is a significant opportunity to improve customer focus, drive adoption across engineering, and reduce fragmentation
- Define and drive the vision and roadmap for core platform solutions powering Upstart’s products and engineering teams
- Deliver scalable, secure communication and identity frameworks that form the backbone of our product suite
- Improve adoption of platform solutions across engineering by partnering closely with other technical leaders
- Lead the development of next-generation design systems and frontend platforms that elevate customer and developer experiences
- Build alignment across organizations to reduce bespoke solutions and technical debt
- Mentor senior engineers and grow future technical leaders within the team
- Represent Platform Engineering in weekly Operational Reviews, Engineering Leadership meetings, and Strategic Planning sessions
Our take
Based in San Mateo, California, Upstart is piositioning itself as a leading AI lending marketplace, connecting millions of consumers with more than 100 banks and credit unions. In a market where credit access can be limited by traditional scoring methods, Upstart aims to make lending fairer and more accessible by using technology to better understand each borrowers true potential.
Upstart builds AI and cloud-based tools that help lenders approve more borrowers at lower rates. Its models analyze thousands of variables (not just credit scores) to predict creditworthiness more accurately. And through its platform, consumers can access personal, auto, and home-equity loans, as well as smaller "relief" loans, all through a seamless digital experience.
So far, its success is reflected in its high loan automation rate (over 90% of loans are fully processed without human intervention) and the billions in loan originations it has facilitated. The company continues to refine its AI models and expand its offerings, with the goal of helping lenders serve more customers while making borrowing easier and more affordable.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2019
$50m
SERIES D
Mar 2017
$32.5m
SERIES D
Total funding: $135.7m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health plans
- 401k Plan
- Annual wellness reimbursement
- Disability insurance
- Generous vacation policy
- Flexible time off
- Parental leave
- Family forming benefits through Carrot
- Technology equipment budget
- Personal development budget
- Various clubs and extracurricular activities
- Catered lunches
- Fully stocked micro-kitchen
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
David Girouard
(Founder & CEO)They started their career at Accenture and Booz Allen & Hamilton before working in Product Management at Apple and Virage. They left their role of 8 years as President of Enterprise at Google to found Upstart in March 2012.
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