Senior Solutions Architect, Upstart
$121.3-167.8k
+ Bonus + Equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
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AI lending marketplace
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AI lending marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$121.3-167.8k
+ Bonus + Equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable effortless credit based on true risk.
Role
Who you are
- A minimum of 4-5 years playing a key role in developing, supporting, and maintaining software integration and API solutions in the financial services space; strong knowledge of core banking and credit union platforms and systems preferred (for example, Fiserv, FIS, Jack Henry, Corelation, etc.)
- Experience teaming and coordinating cross-functionally with engineering and product teams strongly preferred
- A demonstrated ability to successfully partner with customers, external business partners, and cross-functional colleagues
- Experience driving complex projects to successful completion with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to communicate effectively in a manner tailored for the audience (from the C-suite to analysts and software engineers)
- A track record of developing, maintaining, and optimizing APIs and software integration solutions
- Self-starter who is responsible, motivated, detailed oriented, able to work well in a collaborative environment, and is comfortable with tight deadlines
- A responsive, customer-service posture with superior organization skills
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize and act on a large volume of requests for information
- The ideal candidate will pay strong attention to detail as a habit and they will hold the quality of their work as paramount in all that they do
- Self-starter who is responsible, motivated, and able to work well in a collaborative environment
- Superior organization and follow-up skill
- Hands on experience with C#, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, or Python is required
What the job involves
- As a Senior Solutions Architect you hold an important strategic position within Upstart's Lending Partnerships Services organization, accountable for the development, execution, implementation and support of client-side integration solutions aimed at helping Upstart’s lending partners integrate Upstart with their core banking and lending platforms
- You also play an important role as a trusted advisor for lenders, guiding them through the process of successfully integrating their banking systems with an external vendor
- This is an exciting role for a team player who is looking for the opportunity to make an immediate impact as part of a growing team
- You will have the opportunity to drive strategic initiatives aimed at expanding Upstart’s integration capabilities and offerings, while also helping to shape and inform product integration enhancements that will improve Upstart’s overall value proposition to lending partners of all sizes
- As a trusted advisor, you will need to quickly interpret and understand each lender’s unique integration challenges and concerns and be able to offer solutions based on Upstart’s product offerings and capabilities
- You will also be expected to be able to effectively explain Upstart’s APIs and connectors, among other subject areas, in a manner that is convincing and easily interpretable to a varied external stakeholder audience
- In addition to actively meeting with and supporting clients as a trusted advisor, you will also be expected to provide software engineering support in the development of point solutions, where required and appropriate
- Qualified candidates will have experience working within a consumer lending, banking, credit union, fintech, finance or commercial banking technology environment
- Experience should include creating and maintaining APIs and associated integration components
- Experience developing and maintaining software integrations with core banking systems and platforms is a strong plus
- Represent Upstart as you guide key customer stakeholders through their external vendor systems integration considerations and decisions pre- and post- program launch
- Help address lending partner Upstart product integration questions and requests for information while offering subject matter expertise and best practices
- Guide lending partners through the technical details of integrating Upstart data to major core banking platforms and ancillary systems
- Team with Upstart’s third-party technology partners to develop and deliver technical integration solutions while providing guidance and subject matter expertise
- Provide software engineering support to develop and implement API-based integration solutions
- Form and cultivate cross-functional relationships with Sales, Implementation, Product, Engineering, among others, to remain up-to-date and informed on Upstart’s latest product offerings and lender demands
- Take a hands-on approach to learning the Upstart platform and related APIs, including corresponding use cases, to identify future API capability improvements and to inform future-state product development
- Define best practices and author integration strategies, technical documentation, and support procedures to be utilized by the integration team
- Draw on theoretical knowledge of cloud architecture patterns and SaaS to develop expert solutions to business problems
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.
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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 values
- Every second counts
- Do the right thing even when it's hard
- Make clever use of numbers
- Be smart and know you might be wrong
- Don't assume it can be done
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
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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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