Senior Engineering Manager, Upstart
Cash Line
$195.3-270.4k
Canada Remote - Anticipated Base Salary Range: $182,800—$264,500 USD + equity and bonus opportunities for all
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AI lending marketplace
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AI lending marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$195.3-270.4k
Canada Remote - Anticipated Base Salary Range: $182,800—$264,500 USD + equity and bonus opportunities for all
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable effortless credit based on true risk.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics, or a related field (or its equivalent) + 8 years of experience, including at least 3 years of direct people management experience
- Experience managing and developing software engineering teams responsible for delivering customer-facing products or platforms
- Experience establishing execution frameworks, operating models, or delivery processes within fast-paced or ambiguous engineering environments
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with Product and Design teams to deliver complex technical initiatives
- Experience prioritizing and delivering across multiple concurrent engineering initiatives with measurable business impact
Desirable
- Knowledge of consumer financial products, fintech platforms, or lending systems
- Ability to evaluate engineering impact using customer, product, and business outcomes in addition to delivery metrics
- Experience leading engineering teams through periods of rapid product growth or organizational scaling
- Skills in balancing technical execution with cross-functional stakeholder management and team development
- Experience with mobile product development or customer-facing application experiences
What the job involves
- As the Senior Engineering Manager, Cash Line at Upstart, you will lead the day-to-day operations of a high-performing engineering team responsible for delivering complex product and platform enhancements
- You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, and senior leadership to establish execution systems, improve delivery predictability, and help scale a product that is already demonstrating strong market traction
- Lead and develop a team of approximately 10 engineers focused on scaling Upstart’s Cash Line product and platform capabilities
- Establish execution frameworks, operating rhythms, and prioritization systems that improve delivery quality and predictability across the team
- Partner closely with Product and Design leaders to execute against a complex roadmap spanning monetization, user retention, credit expansion, and platform scalability
- Drive cross-functional alignment across engineering, product, design, and leadership stakeholders to deliver high-impact customer experiences
- Support the team through the transition from MVP to scaled product by balancing structure with team autonomy and ownership
- Guide technical and organizational decision-making across multiple concurrent roadmap initiatives with competing business and engineering trade-offs
- Foster an inclusive, collaborative engineering culture focused on growth, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Help shape the future growth of the Cash Line organization as the business and engineering scope expands over time
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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