Senior Software Engineer - Core Pricing - Remote

Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Pricing team at Upstart, you will implement and maintain features that manage the pricing process for all of Upstart’s product lines, ensuring that the output of ML underwriting models are accurately converted to measures of risk and profitability.

In Short

• Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand business goals and translate them into technical requirements.
• Develop robust, high-performance services that enable real-time pricing decisions.
• Optimize and refactor code for scalability and efficiency, ensuring low-latency responses in our pricing engines.
• Maintain and evolve our API infrastructure to support the growing volume of products and integrations.
• Ensure the quality and reliability of pricing models by writing unit and integration tests, participating in code reviews, and monitoring production systems.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go.
• Experience with building scalable APIs and microservices in a cloud-based environment (e.g., AWS, GCP).
• Experience with communication frameworks such as gRPC and Kafka.
• Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex technical topics to non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation (base + bonus & equity).
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with Health Savings Account contributions from Upstart.
• 401(k) with 100% company match up to $4,500 and immediate vesting and after-tax savings.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
• Life and disability insurance.
• Generous holiday, vacation, sick and safety leave.
• Supportive parental, family care, and military leave programs.
• Annual wellness, technology & ergonomic reimbursement programs.
• Social activities including team events and onsites, all-company updates, employee resource groups (ERGs), and other interest groups.
• Catered lunches + snacks & drinks when working in offices.