Software Engineer, Home Lending

Upstart; United States; Remote; USD 136,000 - 189,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a software engineer on the Home Lending team, where you'll play a crucial role in developing innovative products like HELOC and Mortgage. This role offers the chance to make a significant impact on the lending experience for millions of Americans. With a focus on leveraging machine learning and automation, you'll help create a seamless, digital-first lending process while collaborating with a diverse team. If you thrive in a dynamic environment and are eager to contribute to meaningful change, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Competitive Compensation

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Life and disability insurance

Generous leave policies

Wellness reimbursement programs

Catered lunches and snacks in offices

Social activities and team events

Qualifications

• 4+ years of fullstack software experience with proficiency in Kotlin, Java, or C#.
• Hands-on experience with React and SQL databases is required.

Responsibilities

• Build and grow Upstart’s HELOC and Mortgage products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners across the full stack.

Skills

Fullstack Software Development

Kotlin

Java

C#

React

SQL Databases

Communication Skills

Tools

AWS

Kafka

Spring Boot

Next.js

Kubernetes

Job description

About Upstart

Upstart is a 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 two-thirds of Upstart loans are approved instantly and are fully automated.

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; and Austin, Texas.

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!

As a software engineer on the Home Lending team, you’ll help build and grow Upstart’s 2 newest products: HELOC and Mortgage.

Why home loans? Millions of homeowners are locked into long-term low-interest mortgages and looking for a way to access their equity. By securing a loan against their house, we can lend them fast, affordable credit for remodels, big purchases, or paying off debt. This is a huge category of consumer credit, and it’s where we can make our biggest impact.

Why us? The market has left behind millions of Americans with imperfect credit or difficult-to-document income. Serving these customers is our bread and butter, and it’s core to our mission. Because we use machine learning and automation to assess credit-worthiness, we can offer a faster experience at a better price.

We want our team to reflect the people we’re serving. To serve customers at the fringes, we need people who think at the fringes—weird, quirky, out-of-the-box do-ers who reason from first principles and not from the status quo. We leave our ego at the door and crave being proven wrong. We're a high-empathy team, and we succeed as a team first, individuals second.

As an engineer on one of Upstart’s newest teams, you’ll work closely with cross-functional partners, working across the whole stack. You're a self-starter that's able to leverage tools in your toolbelt to pave your own path forward to progress and deliver work with quality, testability, resiliency, and maintainability in mind. You may currently specialize on the frontend (React) or backend (Kotlin), but you're looking to get your hands into both areas of the stack. You're eager to learn and grow as an individual but also enjoy helping your team come along for the ride.

Beyond leveraging our existing tech (AWS, Kafka, Spring Boot, Next.js, Kubernetes, Kotlin, React), here’s how you’ll make an impact:

• Proactively search out ways to make an impact beyond the Jira board
• Turn feature-specific tasks into opportunities to up-level the team’s codebase and product
• Know the product intimately enough to propose changes to requirements when we need to find a middle path
• Propose and deliver new ideas that achieve meaningful improvements to our team’s metrics
• Contribute in a meaningful way to quality improvements within our team

What we’re looking for:

• Minimum requirements:
  • 4+ years professional experience in fullstack software
  • 4+ years proficiency in Kotlin, Java, or C# (Our backend is in Kotlin, but Java and C# are similar enough that you can learn on the job.)
  • Some hands-on experience with a JavaScript framework like React
  • Some hands-on experience with SQL databases and domain modeling
• Preferred qualifications:
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. As an engineer, a big part of your job will be representing your projects in cross-functional conversations, and you’ll need to tailor your communication style to fit these different audiences’ needs.
  • Preference for face-time and synchronous collaboration. We’re a distributed team of remote workers (from coast to coast), and while we predominantly build asynchronously, we prefer facetime when collaborating in a tight feedback loop. You’ll need to be comfortable with a few hours of Zoom per day (e.g., mob programming) to excel in this role.
  • Comfortable challenging authority. We want engineers who can push back on their managers when they think we’re going down the wrong path. Related: you thrive in environments where you are expected to think like an owner and make decisions like one.

Travel requirements: As a digital first company, the majority of your work can be accomplished remotely. But our team still has regular onsite collaboration sessions. These occur roughly once per quarter (~3 days at a time) in one of our main offices (Columbus, Austin, or San Mateo). If you need to travel to make these meetups, Upstart will cover all travel-related expenses.

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

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At Upstart, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. The anticipated base salary for this position is expected to be within the below range. Your actual base pay will depend on your geographic location–with our “digital first” philosophy, Upstart uses compensation regions that vary depending on location. Individual pay is also determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

In addition, Upstart provides employees with target bonuses, equity compensation, and generous benefits packages (including medical, dental, vision, and 401k).

United States | Remote - Anticipated Base Salary Range $136,600 — $189,000 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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