Software Engineer, Marketing Platform

The Team

Upstart's Marketing Platform team is developing innovative solutions and strategies that drive efficient and scalable marketing outreach, empowering us to effectively engage with our users while having a direct impact on Upstart's mission and growth. The team is responsible for the creation and evolution of the systems, tools, and integrations to engage with existing users and attract new customers. 

As a Software Engineer on the Marketing Platform team at Upstart, you will be instrumental in helping us create the tools and systems to target the right users with the right content at the right time. You will work closely with cross-functional counterparts in Analytics, Lifecycle and Performance Marketing, Machine Learning, and Product to create a scalable marketing platform that mobilizes Upstart’s owned channels to drive users to our products efficiently. 

Position Location - This role is available in the following locations: Remote, San Mateo, Columbus, Austin 

Time Zone Requirements - This team operates across all US time zones.

Travel Requirements - This team has regular on-site collaboration sessions. These occur 3 days per quarter at an Upstart office. If you need to travel to make these meetups, Upstart will cover all travel related expenses.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Work with cross functional partners including product managers, designers, machine learning engineers, analytics, and marketing managers to design and deliver high-quality products to be served across various marketing channels
• Design and build technology for serving marketing content to users via scalable and personalized landing pages, emails, push notifications, and in-product content
• Make architectural contributions and decisions to improve the reliability of our software and maintainability of our code base 
• Design and build systems that integrate heavily with third parties and ingest, store, and expose large amounts of data

What we’re looking for: 

• Minimum requirements:
  • 4+ years of professional software development experience 
  • Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Ruby, Java, Python, or Javascript
  • Experience building scalable APIs and microservices in a cloud-based environment (e.g., AWS, GCP).
  • Experience leading small to medium sized projects over multiple months and/or multiple engineers
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work in a distributed team 
• Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience working on systems that integrate with 3rd parties and/or ingest, store, expose large amounts of data
  • Professional experience working with Ruby on Rails and/or Kotlin
  • Experience with SQL, data warehouses, or other database technologies
  • Experience working with marketing technology or growth engineering

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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