Senior Software Engineer, Upstart

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of professional experience
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
• Strong proficiency in one or more of Kotlin, Java, Python, Ruby, or Typescript programming languages
• Proficiency in automated testing patterns
• Experience in building highly observable systems
• Experience with Kafka
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for the quality and timely delivery of work

Desirable

• As a Senior Software Engineer on Upstart’s Event Bus, Experimentation, and gRPC team, you are empowered to design and implement high impact, cross cutting solutions that touch nearly every service within Upstart
• We are a small and high impacting team contributing to Upstart’s North Star Architecture and need a product-oriented engineer who is excited to contribute across Event Bus, Experimentation, and gRPC internal tooling
• Lead the design and development of new features and improvements to existing features
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and bring those insights into building an impactful roadmap for the team
• Establish best practices for achieving an Event Driven Architecture, safe feature rollout, and service to service, API design
• Mentor junior engineers and promote a culture of technical excellence
• Contribute to quality improvements within our team and the engineering organization in a meaningful way