Upstart jobs

Senior Manager role leading Upstart's vendor management and third-party risk oversight function for secured lending products, reporting to Head of Secured Lending and managing a team. Primary focus is establishing governance, monitoring, and compliance frameworks for vendor relationships within a regulated lending environment. Remote, US-based role.

Senior Software Engineer, Pricing at Upstart (AI lending marketplace) designing scalable, low-latency pricing services that convert ML underwriting outputs into risk/profitability measures. Responsibilities include platform architecture, mentoring engineers, and cross-functional collaboration with data scientists and product. Remote-first US-based (with offices in Columbus, Austin, Bay Area, NYC); salary and equity not disclosed.

Senior Software Engineer on Upstart's Home Lending Borrower Experience team, owning borrower-facing systems for loan application, decisioning, and closing workflows. Responsibilities include production reliability, technical design for multi-quarter initiatives, cross-functional partnership with Product/Design/ML/Operations, and on-call support. US remote (digital-first with optional office presence in Columbus, Austin, Bay Area, NYC). Compensation and technical stack details not provided.

Operations Manager, Auto Loan Processing at Upstart leads the Auto Loans Onboarding team, managing daily operations, team productivity, KPI execution (turnaround times, quality, schedule adherence), and staff development. Role requires background in people management, operations, auto lending industry experience. This is operations management, not software engineering. Upstart offers digital-first flexibility and multi-city US options.

Upstart, an AI-powered lending marketplace, is hiring a Senior Product Manager for the Auto Secured Personal Loans (ASPL) team—its fastest-growing product. You'll drive strategic direction and day-to-day execution across engineering, design, and marketing, while partnering with data scientists, compliance, operations, and capital markets teams to eliminate friction, expand borrower eligibility, and scale the product. The role requires 4+ years of product management experience on consumer-focused teams, strong product sense with a track record of shipping multi-quarter roadmaps, and rigorous analytical skills; fintech, lending, KYC/verification, or securitization experience is preferred. The position is fully remote (US or Canada) with East/West coast time zone requirements and quarterly in-person onsites; base salary ranges from $162,100–$224,500 USD (or $153,000–$190,000 CAD), plus bonus, equity vesting quarterly, and comprehensive benefits. This role is notable for its focus on a high-growth, AI-driven product at the intersection of consumer lending and capital markets innovation.

Upstart is seeking a Principal Program Manager, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery to join the Information Security team at Upstart Bank, the company's federally-chartered lending division. You'll lead enterprise-wide business continuity and disaster recovery strategy, owning the business impact analysis process, developing and maintaining continuity plans, and driving cross-functional execution across Technology, Security, Compliance, and business owners to ensure critical operations can recover from disruptive events. Required qualifications include a bachelor's degree plus 8+ years of experience leading or maturing business continuity, disaster recovery, or operational resilience programs, with specific experience in regulated financial services environments and frameworks like ISO 22301 or NIST. Preferred qualifications include cloud infrastructure knowledge, audit/regulatory support experience, and certifications such as CBCP or CISSP. This fully remote role (based in the US) offers a competitive package with base salary of $172,100–$238,300, quarterly equity vesting, and 401(k) matching up to $15,000 annually, plus comprehensive health coverage and paid family leave. The role requires bank-grade operational resilience standards and regular cross-functional collaboration with quarterly in-person onsites.

Upstart is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (L5) for its Partner Integrations and Origination Platform team, which builds and scales the systems powering loan originations across products and lending partners. You'll design and build scalable backend services, modernize foundational infrastructure, refactor legacy systems into reusable platform capabilities, and collaborate across engineering, product, lending, compliance, and legal teams to deliver secure lending experiences. The role requires a Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field plus 4+ years of software engineering and 6+ years of backend systems experience in production, with proficiency in modern backend frameworks (Ruby on Rails preferred) and experience owning software through the full development lifecycle including monitoring and on-call support. Preferred qualifications include fintech or lending experience, knowledge of orchestration platforms like Temporal, and skills in system observability and AI-assisted development tools. Upstart is a digital-first AI lending marketplace operating across 80+ US and Canadian cities with offices in Columbus, Austin, the Bay Area, and NYC (opening Summer 2026), offering base salary of $166,900–$230,900 USD/CAD plus bonus, equity vesting quarterly, and comprehensive benefits including 401(k) match up to $15,000 annually.

Upstart's Foundations team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build and scale backend data systems that power marketing operations, audience segmentation, and attribution workflows for the AI lending marketplace. You'll own the design and maintenance of large-scale data pipelines, collaborate cross-functionally with product and marketing teams, and implement monitoring and data quality safeguards across critical systems. The role requires 5+ years building distributed backend systems or data platforms in production, plus a CS degree and experience with fault tolerance and observability practices. Upstart is a digital-first company with a mission to reduce borrowing costs through AI; you can work fully remote from anywhere in the US/Canada but will attend team onsites 1-2 times per quarter. The salary range is $166,900–$230,900 USD depending on location, plus equity that vests quarterly, 401(k) matching, and comprehensive benefits. A concrete detail: experience supporting marketing tech or attribution platforms is preferred but not required, making this accessible to strong backend engineers transitioning into data systems.

Upstart is hiring a Recruiting Coordinator (Contract) to manage interview scheduling and candidate experience across their recruiting teams. The role coordinates scheduling, maintains records in ATS systems (Greenhouse), escalates capacity trends, and supports process improvements in a high-volume scheduling environment. Remote across the US, contract position, with salary not disclosed. Upstart is a Series C+ AI lending platform.

Senior Security Engineering Manager at Upstart (AI lending fintech, post-Series F) leading a team across application security, infrastructure security, and offensive security. Role focuses on setting security roadmap, developing team members, and partnering with business/engineering leaders on security strategy. Requires experience leading security engineering teams, background in secure-by-design practices, and ability to scale security across product platforms. Remote-capable US position in multiple office locations (Columbus, Austin, Bay Area, NYC).

Senior Security Manager for Enterprise Security Engineering at Upstart, leading a team responsible for building and maturing security programs across enterprise security, security operations, and detection engineering. You'll define Upstart's approach to identifying, prioritizing, preventing, detecting, and responding to security risks across corporate systems, cloud environments, and critical workflows while fostering a culture that prioritizes proactive and preventative controls over reactive response. The role requires 8+ years in information security or related domains plus 3+ years managing security professionals, with demonstrated experience owning security program roadmaps, metrics, and execution across cross-functional teams. Upstart is a leading AI lending marketplace operating over one million predictions per borrower, offering competitive compensation ($190,600–$263,900 base for US remote roles), equity grants, strong benefits including 401(k) matching and paid family leave, and flexibility to work remotely across US and Canada or from offices in Columbus, Austin, the Bay Area, or NYC. The role is fully remote (East/West coast time zones preferred) with quarterly in-person onsites, and preferred experience includes cloud security (AWS, Kubernetes), modern detection engineering, and work in regulated fintech or high-compliance environments.

Upstart's Foundations team is hiring a Software Engineer to build and maintain large-scale backend data systems that power marketing operations, audience segmentation, and attribution workflows for the AI lending marketplace. You'll design scalable data pipelines, collaborate with product and marketing teams to deliver customer acquisition solutions, and implement monitoring and data quality safeguards across critical systems. The role requires 3+ years of backend distributed systems or data platform experience, production database/data pipeline work, and cross-functional collaboration skills; knowledge of data modeling, marketing tech platforms, and data governance is preferred. Upstart is a digital-first company offering remote work across the US and Canada with quarterly in-person onsites, along with competitive equity packages and strong benefits including 401(k) matching up to $15,000 annually. The base salary ranges from $142,000–$196,000 USD depending on location, with bonuses and quarterly equity vesting. No specific deal-breaker, though the role emphasizes platform scalability and long-term maintainability as much as feature velocity.