Senior Frontend Engineer, Upstart
$163.6-226.4k
+ Bonus & Equity
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AI lending marketplace
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AI lending marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$163.6-226.4k
+ Bonus & Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable effortless credit based on true risk.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of professional web development experience, with at least 4+ years of experience working with modern Javascript web frameworks like React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, etc
- Advanced knowledge of Typescript
- A strong understanding of semantic HTML and CSS3, including layouts, responsive design and accessibility
- Experience with modern testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, react-testing-library, etc) and Storybook
Desirable
- You have experience building and maintaining a design system or designing, auditing, and building highly accessible web components
- You have experience with vanilla-extract, Sprinkles, Chakra UI or other atomic CSS frameworks like tailwindcss
- You are familiar with best practices around design token versioning and maintenance
- You’re adept at clear, concise and well-organized written communication
What the job involves
- The Frontend Platform team champions frontend excellence at Upstart by empowering teams to engineer high-quality, scalable user experiences
- We build tools and services that are used internally by the engineering, design and product teams, including Upstart’s Design System
- As a Senior Frontend Engineer working on the Design System, you’ll play a key role in modernizing Upstart’s frontend foundations and shaping the future of our borrower-facing products
- You’ll help evolve our design system - aligning with modern product design principles to ensure consistency, accessibility, and adaptability across responsive web and native app surfaces
- This work will enable a unified, future-proof foundation that accelerates developer velocity, enhances design-engineering collaboration, and delivers polished, consistent user experiences across all of Upstart’s borrower touchpoints
- Mature Upstart’s design system to enable consistent UI development and a shared vocabulary between engineers and design
- Author, document and maintain UI components that are accessible, performant and robust
- Act as a liaison between product design and engineering, providing technical guidance and coaching
- Build relationships with frontend engineers working on Upstart products and drive best practices
Our take
Business startups across the world usually seek out funding, but this is often difficult for companies led by millenials. Millennial entrepreneurs with an excellent track record in business are increasingly requiring access to these loans, but their lack of credit history results in proposals frequently being declined.
Upstart provides loans that are aimed towards the target audience of millennials with entrepreneurial intentions, offering low interest rates that average at 12%. The company claims these rates are 10% lower than traditional lenders, and the service aims towards ensuring that the client is subject to no further fees (such as prepayment penalties).
Upstart claims that its unique selling point lies in the fact that its loans are funded the day after approval. Whilst the service focuses on personal loans for business, the company has also expanded to offer loans for car refinancing. Over 2022 and 23, Upstart's stocks fell dramatically and an investigation was undertaken by a law firm representing the company's long-term investors over alleged security law violations by its board of directors. However, the end of 2023 saw a 20% stock value rise for Upstart after its partnership with Mutual Security Credit Union led to a rise in customers, indicating that it is on the up after a difficult two years.
Freddie
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
- Life insurance
- Disability insuranc
- Generous vacation policy
- Flexible time off
- Parental leave
- 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
(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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