Senior Software Engineer, Lending Partnerships

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!

The Team:

Upstart’s Lending Partnerships Engineering team is responsible for implementing and maintaining the core functionality and services associated with enabling lenders to partner with Upstart. Our mission is to increase and efficiently utilize monthly available funds by partnering with banks and credit unions to create marketplace competition to drive down the cost for borrowers.

We provide lenders with a highly automated, all digital experience, and match lenders with borrowers. When we’re done, we will have a robust ecosystem of low cost capital, resulting in lower rates for our borrowers, higher origination volumes, and sustainable growth for our organization. We measure our impact through monthly available funds and their utilization, operational metrics such as time to onboard a lender, efficiency of the loan origination process, and the effectiveness of our lender features.

As a Senior Software Engineer in Lending Partnerships at Upstart, you will be part of the team(s) responsible for onboarding new lenders onto our platform, matching lenders with borrowers, executing our loan origination processes, and ensuring a great lender experience by providing lenders with the tools and products that meet their needs. This role will be central to much of what Upstart as a business does and works closely with other engineering teams to further our value proposition to our Lending Partners.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Work throughout the Upstart platform from the web application and its API integrations/Microservices to supporting backend business logic in Ruby on Rails, React, Kotlin, and more.
• Move quickly to accelerate both existing …