Software Engineer, Upstart
Delivery
$142-196.6k
Plus target bonuses, and equity compensation + Employee Stock Purchase Plan
AI lending marketplace
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AI lending marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$142-196.6k
Plus target bonuses, and equity compensation + Employee Stock Purchase Plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable effortless credit based on true risk.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field (or its equivalent), plus 3 years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience developing production software using one or more general-purpose programming languages
- Experience designing, building, testing, and operating production software or infrastructure
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, deployment systems, developer tooling, or backend services
- Experience independently delivering well-scoped software engineering projects from technical design through production operation
- Demonstrated experience using AI assisted development tools across multiple stages of the software engineering lifecycle, with an interest in continually evolving how you use these tools as their capabilities advance
Desirable
- Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, containers, and infrastructure as code
- Knowledge of deployment platforms, release automation, internal developer platforms, or developer tooling
- Experience with progressive delivery practices such as canary deployments, automated health analysis, and rollback
- Experience with GitOps or deployment technologies such as Argo CD, Helm, or similar systems
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools across the software engineering lifecycle or building AI-enabled developer workflows and automation
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer II, Delivery at Upstart, you will build and operate the systems engineers use to release and deploy software to production. You’ll independently deliver well-scoped engineering projects, contribute to technical design, and improve the reliability and usability of systems that sit directly in the path to production
- Build and improve services, automation, and developer tooling that enable engineering teams to safely release and deploy software to production
- Develop reliable deployment capabilities, including progressive rollouts, deployment health analysis, and automated rollback, to reduce the risk of production changes
- Improve visibility into releases, deployments, configuration, and production state so engineers can understand what changed, where it changed, and how it is performing
- Improve the reliability, performance, observability, and usability of Delivery systems by diagnosing recurring issues and implementing durable improvements
- Replace manual or fragmented release workflows with reusable, self-service capabilities that make the common path to production simple and consistent
- Use AI throughout software development and problem solving, and identify opportunities for AI-enabled automation that makes software delivery safer, faster, and easier to operate
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, and in 2026 earned provisional approval to establish "Upstart Bank" as a bank in the US.
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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
- 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 & Executive Chair)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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