Principal Software Engineer, Capital Marketplace

About the role

The Principal Software Engineer on the Capital Marketplace team at Upstart will collaborate with all parts of the Upstart business and engineering, including Machine Learning, Data Engineering, Product Management, Product Design, Platform, Servicing, Lending Partnerships, and all product vertical teams. The role will report directly to a head of Capital Market Engineering and work closely with all eight of the Capital Marketplace product engineering teams. Your goal is to autonomously identify and prioritize high impact work that will ultimately make the Capital Marketplace Vertical successful.

Responsibilities

• Help define the Capital Marketplace engineering’s longer term technical roadmap ensuring alignment with business objectives
• Guide the architectural evolution of Capital Marketplace systems with an emphasis on systems shared across the Capital Market engineering teams
• Uncover and drive alignment across complex technical requirements, designs, trade-offs, influencing product direction
• Proactively evaluate, prototype, and roll out new technologies/frameworks to help cultivate a culture of innovation
• Persistently partner with product leaders to shape product direction and drive business impact across all Capital Marketplace products
• Lead from the front, while mentoring and developing technical leaders
• Identify and prioritize high leverage and impactful opportunities

Requirements

• Minimum requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics, or a related field (or its equivalent) + 8 years of experience
• Strong technical and software engineering fundamentals including a demonstrated ability to build and own large-scale, highly available consumer products
• Ability to explain complex business and technical concepts to all audiences
• Experience leading large cross-team initiatives at companies that have gone through periods of rapid business or organizational growth
• Track record of successfully mentoring and developing technical leaders

Preferred qualifications

• Has defined and executed on longer term (multi-quarter +) technological visions or strategies for multi-team organizations
• Has driven initiatives of significant depth or breadth with demonstrated results in engineering process, technology platforms, or overall productivity of others
• Able to identify gaps in organizational knowledge, tools, and practices and produce and execute on plans to address those gaps
• Able to influence and lead without direct authority
• Strong product and analytical mindset that allows you to think in terms of ROI, risk, and tradeoffs