Pricing Platform Principal Engineer — Remote

upstart; Stati Uniti; Remoto; USD 195.000 - 270.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

401(k) with company match

Equity grants

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Comprehensive health coverage

Annual wellness allowance

Descrizione del lavoro

Upstart, a leading AI lending marketplace, seeks a Principal Software Engineer for Core Pricing. You will shape the long‑term architecture, lead multi‑team collaboration, and drive scalable, low‑latency services translating ML outputs into pricing decisions across Personal Loans, Auto, HELOC, and more.

You will partner with engineering, ML, product, and business leaders to define platform boundaries, drive debt/credit decisions, and steer architecture for future product expansions.

Competenze

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Deep backend engineering in Python, Kotlin, or Java; primarily Python environment.
• Experience designing/operating Tier 0/Tier 1 services with strict latency etc.
• Strong API/service-oriented architecture, containerization and cloud infra.
• Hands-on design, prototyping, debugging and implementation decisions.
• Strong communication, able to explain complex systems to diverse audiences.
• Experience leading cross-organization technical decisions and mentoring engineers.

Mansioni

• Define cross-company technical vision and roadmap for Upstart's pricing platform.
• Lead architectural evolution toward modular, reusable platform capabilities across loan products.
• Design and improve Tier 0/Tier 1 services with strict latency, throughput, and correctness needs.
• Partner with ML scientists to create boundaries between models and production pricing systems.
• Mentor senior engineers and drive cross-functional alignment across Engineering, ML, Product, Data, Security, and Compliance.

Conoscenze

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/数学

8+ years software engineering

Backend engineering

Python

Kotlin

Java

APIs / SOA

AWS

Leadership / cross-functional

Mentoring engineers

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Strumenti

AWS

Kubernetes

Microservices

Event-driven systems

Observability

Descrizione del lavoro

Upstart, a leading AI lending marketplace, seeks a Principal Software Engineer for Core Pricing. You will shape the long‑term architecture, lead multi‑team collaboration, and drive scalable, low‑latency services translating ML outputs into pricing decisions across Personal Loans, Auto, HELOC, and more.

You will partner with engineering, ML, product, and business leaders to define platform boundaries, drive debt/credit decisions, and steer architecture for future product expansions.