Senior Engineering Manager, Marketplace Optimization

Upstart; Teletrabalho; BRL 1.005.000 - 1.392.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

A leading AI lending marketplace is seeking an Engineering Manager to optimize marketplace strategies and lead high-performing teams. You will leverage your extensive software engineering experience and leadership skills to deliver technical roadmaps, enhance collaboration across departments, and ensure the creation of reliable systems. The role offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and the ability to work remotely, making it an attractive opportunity for seasoned professionals eager to make a significant impact.

Serviços

Competitive compensation including bonus & equity

Comprehensive medical and dental coverage

401(k) with company match

Generous vacation and leave policies

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Social activities and team events

Qualificações

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years in an engineering manager role.
• Proven success leading high performing teams.

Responsabilidades

• Define and execute the team’s technical roadmap.
• Build and grow a high-performing engineering team.
• Drive technical excellence in scalable services.

Conhecimentos

Software engineering

Team leadership

Marketplace optimization

API design

Cloud platforms

Ferramentas

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Descrição da oferta de emprego

About Upstart

Upstart is the leading AI lending marketplace partnering with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit. By leveraging Upstart's AI marketplace, Upstart-powered banks and credit unions can have higher approval rates and lower loss rates across races, ages, and genders, while simultaneously delivering the exceptional digital‑first lending experience their customers demand. More than 80% of borrowers are approved instantly, with zero documentation to upload.

Upstart is a digital‑first company, which means that most Upstarters live and work anywhere in the United States. However, we also have offices in San Mateo, California; Columbus, Ohio; Austin, Texas; and New York City, NY (opening Summer 2026).

Most Upstarters join us because they connect with our mission of enabling access to effortless credit based on true risk. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Upstart, we’d love to hear from you!

The Team

Upstart’s Marketplace Optimization team is responsible for optimizing market‑level outcomes, balancing tradeoffs for borrowers, capital providers, and Upstart. The team builds the dynamic policy levers, matching and offer‑selection logic, and monetization tooling that clear the marketplace, manage margins, and maximize capital utilization efficiency. Our mandate is to enable automated, data‑driven decisions that improve originations, contribution margin, and capital efficiency while supporting new products and partner integrations.

As the Engineering Manager for Marketplace Optimization, you will lead high‑impact engineering squads that turn marketplace strategy and ML‑backed signals into reliable production systems. You’ll partner closely with Product, Machine Learning, and Capital Markets to deliver scalable capital routing, matching, and monetization automation capabilities that directly affect borrower outcomes and capital performance. You will set execution priorities, remove blockers, and develop engineers to ship production‑grade services that are observable, performant, and safe for a regulated fintech environment.

How you’ll make an impact

• Define and execute the team’s technical roadmap: deliver matching, offer‑selection, monetization, and target‑return logic and features that improve marketplace outcomes
• Build and grow a high‑performing engineering team: hire, mentor, and develop engineers and ICs; establish clear expectations and career growth paths
• Drive technical excellence: own architecture and delivery decisions for scalable, fault‑tolerant services, data pipelines, and APIs that integrate with ML models and capital systems
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with Product, ML, Capital Markets, and Risk to translate business goals into prioritized, measurable engineering work
• Own operational reliability and observability: establish SLOs/SLIs, alerting, runbooks, and post‑incident practices to ensure marketplace integrity and fast incident response
• Lead delivery and execution: unblock teams, manage technical and organizational risks, and ensure high‑quality, timely releases while balancing speed and safety

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in an engineering manager role (managing individual contributors and/or managers)
• Proven success leading and scaling high‑performing engineering teams (e.g., growing headcount, improving delivery metrics, or managing multiple squads)
• Demonstrated domain expertise in marketplace optimization, pricing/fee/monetization, or routing systems at scale
• Demonstrated ability to partner closely with Product, and ML teams to deploy models at scale and build scalable production ready systems
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non‑technical audiences
• Strong analytical, organizational, and strategic thinking skills with a bias for action

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands‑on familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), containerization and orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes), and scalable API design
• Experience with streaming and event architectures (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub) and modern data platforms
• Track record operating in regulated or compliance‑sensitive environments and building systems that support auditability
• Background in statistics, economics, or applied ML domains
• Demonstrated success building observability and reliability practices (SLO/SLI design, monitoring, alerting, post‑incident process) and scaling engineering processes across multiple teams

Position location

This role is available in the following locations: Remote

Time zone requirements

The team operates on the East/West coast time zones.

Travel requirements

As a digital first company, the majority of your work can be accomplished remotely. The majority of our employees can live and work anywhere in the U.S but are encouraged to still spend high quality time in‑person collaborating via regular onsites. The in‑person sessions’ cadence varies depending on the team and role; most teams meet once or twice per quarter for 2‑4 consecutive days at a time.

What you’ll love

• 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 such as book clubs, fitness, investing, and volunteering
• Catered lunches + snacks & drinks when working in offices

United States | Remote - Anticipated Base Salary Range $186,100 — $257,500 USD

Upstart is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to ensuring that underrepresented classes receive better access to affordable credit, and are just as committed to embracing diversity and inclusion in our hiring practices. We celebrate all cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, and know that we can only become better together.

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