Senior Software Engineer – Onboarding Experience

Senior Software Engineer – Onboarding Experience

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience building scalable public or consumer-facing web and/or mobile products displaying high standards for user-experience, and a product-first mindset
• Technical leadership experience with deep understanding of code release, deployment orchestration, logging, instrumentation, monitoring, and alerting
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for the quality and timely delivery of work
• Ability to quickly comprehend and reiterate complex requirements from product or engineering leadership and translate those to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Exhibit a growth mindset – you’re comfortable with the uncomfortable, and are not afraid to pick up new technologies that are best for the task, and seek out opportunities to learn from others
• Exhibit a bias for action and comfortability persevering through ambiguity – you regularly practice critical thinking and love to solve difficult problems
• You seek out and appreciate constructive feedback

Responsibilities

• Lead successful cross-team and/or multi-quarter, multi-engineer projects
• Turn team-specific projects into opportunities to up-level the team and the org’s tech platform
• Move quickly to drive existing and greenfield projects forward, while always keeping our end users in mind
• Make architectural contributions and decisions to improve the reliability of our software and maintainability of our code base
• Help us build our engineering team, and make Upstart a genuinely awesome place to work

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with full stack web development with Ruby on Rails, React, and cloud-native development (AWS preferred)
• Knowledge of, or hands-on experience utilizing advanced CI/CD technologies including infrastructure as code