Senior IT DevOps Developer, Upgrade
Offering responsible credit to mainstream consumers
Job no longer available
Offering responsible credit to mainstream consumers
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help our customers move in the right direction with responsible financial products that put more money in their pocket.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Understanding of corporate IT architecture and debugging/investigation techniques
- Strong understanding of systems, networking and troubleshooting techniques
- Knowledge of cloud monitoring, logging and cost management tools
- Strong programming/scripting knowledge - Python, Powershell, Terraform
- Ability to operate in an agile, entrepreneurial start-up environment
Desirable
- AWS certification is a plus
- Experience with other IaaS platforms is a plus
- Google Workspace Automation (GAM) is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Senior IT DevOps Developer at Upgrade, you’ll help drive the processes and automation to increase the productivity of the employee experience
- This role will act as a consultant to the business and find ways to aggregate data across many systems and develop integrations to enhance the workflow of the IT team and others
- Analyze data across various systems and develop data maps
- Identify and develop tooling to automate to increase accuracy and efficiency
- Develop framework for future system integrations
- Automate deployment, monitoring, management and incident response
- Monitor and troubleshoot platform issues
- Build and scale the technology infrastructure to meet rapidly increasing demand
- Manage cross-functional requirements working with various company stakeholders
- Collaborate with various departments to bring new features and services into production
- Develop and improve operational practices and procedures
Our take
Most credit cards don't encourage the owner to pay down their debt. The longer it takes to pay off the balance, the more money lenders are set to make. Upgrade is an online lender and card issuer doing things differently. The company offers personal loans and credit cards, but with a fixed instalment structure and a set number of equal payments. This ensures the balance reduces every month.
The company believes this model reduces default rates, as borrowers are forced to pay down rather than maintain their debt, and it encourages a greater commitment to repay the balance. Further, by combining the ease of a Visa card with the fixed payments and decreased rates of a personal loan, Upgrade sets itself apart from competitors.
In 2021, Upgrade launched its mobile banking and debit card to onboard new customers and increase loyalty. The fixed-rate nature of the company's cards is expected to be of use to customers in future years in an environment of rising rates. Off the back of impressive growth milestones in 2025, the company raised $165 million in Series G funding, raising its valuation to $7.3 billion, a comfortable position for a future IPO.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2025
$165m
SERIES G
Nov 2021
$280m
SERIES F
Total funding: $712m
Company benefits
- Stock option plan
- 100% paid coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance
- Flexible PTO
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
- Paid parental leave
- Health & wellness initiatives
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Renaud Laplanche
(Co-Founder & CEO)After an MBA at London Business School, Renaud spent 5 years as an Associate at Clearly Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and co-founded MatchPoint. They then left Oracle after a year to co-found Lending Club in 2006 and co-founded Upgrade in August 2016.
Adelina Grozdanova
(Co-Founder & Head of Investor Group)Adelina started their career with 6 years at Morgan Stanley after a degree at Princeton. They left banking in 2012 to join Lending Club as VP, and after 3 years co-founded Upgrade, serving as Head of Investor Group since 2016.
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