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Upstart is hiring for 39 open roles on Migrate Mate as of August 31, 2026, concentrated in business strategy and business operations, with listed salaries up to about $275,000. Migrate Mate updates Upstart's live openings daily. Upstart is a fintech company that uses artificial intelligence to power consumer lending products, including personal loans and home equity lines of credit, offered through bank and credit union partnerships.
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Upstart hiring data on Migrate Mate, as of August 31, 2026.
- Open jobs
- 39
- Top team
- Business Strategy
- Seniority
- Manager level or above
- Work type
- 87% remote or hybrid
- Top location
- Remote
- Salary range
- $80,000–$275,000
Listed salaries for Upstart roles on Migrate Mate range from about $80,000 to $275,000 per year across 39 open roles, as of August 31, 2026. Some roles list hourly contract rates.
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About Upstart
At Upstart, we’re united by a mission that matters: to radically reduce the cost and complexity of borrowing for all Americans. Every day, we bring creativity, experimentation, and advanced AI to reshape access to credit, helping millions move forward financially with clarity and confidence.
As the leading AI lending marketplace, we partner with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit through technology that’s both radically intelligent and deeply human. Our platform runs over one million predictions per borrower using more than 3,000 signals, powering smarter, fairer decisions for millions of customers. But the numbers only hint at the impact. Every idea, every voice, and every contribution moves us closer to a world where credit never stands between people and their financial progress.
We’re proudly digital-first, giving most Upstarters the flexibility to do their best work from wherever they thrive, alongside teammates across 80+ cities in the US and Canada. Digital-first doesn’t mean distant. We’re intentional about in-person connection through team onsites, planning sessions, and moments that spark creativity and trust. And whether you choose to work primarily from home or collaborate in-person from one of our offices in Columbus, Austin, the Bay Area, or New York City (opening Summer 2026), you’ll have the support to work in the way that works best for you.
If you’re energized by tackling meaningful problems, excited to innovate with purpose, and motivated by work that truly matters, we’d love to hear from you.
The Team:
Upstart's Core Pricing team drives key initiatives that directly influence our revenue streams, unit economics, and product strategy. The team builds and evolves the common systems used to translate underwriting insights into accurate risk and profitability decisions for every loan we originate, while enabling a seamless borrower experience across products.
As a Principal Software Engineer on Core Pricing, you will provide technical leadership that spans engineering, machine learning, and product organizations — not just the Pricing team. You will shape the long-term architecture, strategy, and operating model for pricing systems that serve multiple product lines and stakeholders across the company. Working in close partnership with engineering, ML, product, and business leaders across Personal Loans, Auto, HELOC, and adjacent platforms, you will lead the development of scalable, low-latency, highly reliable services that convert ML underwriting outputs into pricing decisions, and you will help define the future of Upstart's pricing platform as the company expands into new products, markets, and capabilities.
Our stack spans Python (Django, FastAPI, Celery), Kotlin/Spring Boot, gRPC/Protobuf, Temporal for workflow orchestration, AWS (S3, RDS/Postgres, ElastiCache), Kubernetes/Helm, and Datadog for observability.
How you'll make an impact
- Define the cross-company technical vision and roadmap for Upstart's pricing platform, ensuring alignment across Pricing, Personal Loans, Auto, HELOC, ML, and Product organizations.
- Lead the architectural evolution from tightly coupled, sequential workflows toward modular, reusable platform capabilities across loan products.
- Design and improve Tier 0/Tier 1 services where latency, throughput, availability, and financial correctness are all critical.
- Partner closely with machine-learning scientists and engineers to create reliable, scalable boundaries between models and production pricing systems.
- Balance the sometimes-competing needs of engineering, machine learning, and product teams across organizations, making pragmatic trade-offs that serve Upstart's broader technical and business strategy.
- Clarify service, API, configuration, and ownership boundaries across Pricing, Personal Loans, Auto, HELOC, and adjacent platform teams.
- Evaluate runtime and language choices pragmatically, including where Python, Kotlin, Rust or Go best serve long-term system needs.
- Reduce operational burden through better testing, observability, failure isolation, incident learning, and architecture that limits blast radius.
- Lead company-wide technical discussions, surface trade-offs clearly, and build alignment across Engineering, ML, Product, Data, Security, Compliance, and business partners.
- Stay close to implementation through design reviews, prototypes, and critical code while mentoring senior technical leaders and making the people around you more successful.
- Prioritize technical-debt and platform investments based on business value, risk reduction, and long-term return rather than technical elegance alone.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field - or equivalent practical experience - plus 8 or more years of software engineering experience.
- A track record of setting architecture and technical direction for large, complex distributed systems used across multiple teams or products.
- Deep backend engineering experience and production proficiency in at least one of Python, Kotlin, or Java; willingness and ability to work effectively in a predominantly Python environment.
- Experience designing or operating Tier 0/Tier 1 services with demanding latency, throughput, availability, and correctness requirements.
- Strong understanding of APIs, service-oriented or modular architectures, containerization, cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS), and maintainable software design.
- Hands-on technical judgment: you can move from strategy and architecture into concrete designs, prototypes, debugging, and critical implementation decisions.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex systems, constraints, and trade-offs to technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Demonstrated success leading cross-organization technical decisions — balancing the needs of engineering, machine learning, and product teams — and influencing without direct authority.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and expanding the effectiveness and scope of other technical leaders.
- Strong product and business judgment, including the ability to balance delivery, reliability, technical debt, risk, and long-term investment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building calculation-heavy, real-time decisioning, pricing, marketplace, risk, fraud, payments, trading, auction, or advertising systems.
- Experience partnering with machine-learning teams or productionizing models at scale, including clear boundaries between modeling workflows and production services.
- Experience modernizing a mature or tightly coupled platform through staged migration while continuing to deliver customer and business value.
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, microservices, event-driven systems, and production observability.
- Additional production experience with Rust or another performance-oriented language.
- Background or applied exposure in statistics, mathematics, economics, econometrics, financial systems, or other quantitative domains.
- Experience in a rapidly scaling or changing organization where architecture had to evolve alongside the business.
Position location Remote
Travel requirements As a digital first company, the majority of your work can be accomplished remotely. The majority of our employees can live and work anywhere in the U.S but are encouraged to to still spend high quality time in-person collaborating via regular onsites. The in-person sessions’ cadence varies depending on the team and role; most teams meet once or twice per quarter for 2-4 consecutive days at a time.
At Upstart, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. The anticipated base salary for this position is expected to be within the below range. Your actual base pay will depend on your geographic location–with our “digital first” philosophy, Upstart uses compensation regions that vary depending on location. Individual pay is also determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
In addition, Upstart provides employees with target bonuses, equity compensation, and generous benefits packages (including medical, dental, vision, and 401k).
What you'll love
At Upstart, our benefits are designed to support your health, financial well-being, family, and personal growth. Here’s what you can expect:
- Competitive compensation, including base pay, bonus opportunities, and annual equity grants that vest quarterly
- Retirement benefits to help you plan for the future, including a 401(k) or Group Retirement Savings Plan with a company match of $2 for every $1 contributed, up to $15,000 annually (USD in the US, CAD in Canada)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with discounted stock purchase options for eligible employees (US only)
- Comprehensive health coverage designed to support you and your family, including medical, dental, vision, and wellness resources for US and supplemental health coverage for Canada.
- Health Savings Account contributions from Upstart for eligible plans (US only)
- Income protection benefits, including life insurance and disability coverage for added financial security
- Paid time off, sick leave, and company holidays, in line with local requirements
- Paid family and parental leave to support caregiving and major life moments (duration varies by country)
- Family-centered benefits to support fertility, parenthood, and caregiving needs
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offering mental health support and life-centered resources
- Financial wellness resources, including access to financial planning tools and a financial concierge service (US Only)
- Annual wellness allowance to support your physical and emotional well-being and personal development, based on what matters most to you
- Annual productivity allowance to invest in relevant tools and resources you need to do your best work, no matter where you work from
- Connection and community through team events, all-company updates, and employee resource groups (ERGs)
- Onsite perks, including catered lunches and fully stocked micro-kitchens when working from one of our offices in the Bay Area, Austin, Columbus, and New York City (opening Summer 2026!)
For roles based in Canada, please note that we are not currently able to hire in Quebec.
Upstart is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. Just as we are dedicated to improving access to affordable credit for all, we are committed to inclusive and fair hiring practices.
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing an application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please email candidate_accommodations@upstart.com
https://www.upstart.com/candidate_privacy_policy
About Upstart
At Upstart, we’re united by a mission that matters: to radically reduce the cost and complexity of borrowing for all Americans. Every day, we bring creativity, experimentation, and advanced AI to reshape access to credit, helping millions move forward financially with clarity and confidence.
As the leading AI lending marketplace, we partner with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit through technology that’s both radically intelligent and deeply human. Our platform runs over one million predictions per borrower using more than 3,000 signals, powering smarter, fairer decisions for millions of customers. But the numbers only hint at the impact. Every idea, every voice, and every contribution moves us closer to a world where credit never stands between people and their financial progress.
We’re proudly digital-first, giving most Upstarters the flexibility to do their best work from wherever they thrive, alongside teammates across 80+ cities in the US and Canada. Digital-first doesn’t mean distant. We’re intentional about in-person connection through team onsites, planning sessions, and moments that spark creativity and trust. And whether you choose to work primarily from home or collaborate in-person from one of our offices in Columbus, Austin, the Bay Area, or New York City (opening Summer 2026), you’ll have the support to work in the way that works best for you.
If you’re energized by tackling meaningful problems, excited to innovate with purpose, and motivated by work that truly matters, we’d love to hear from you.
The Team:
Upstart's Core Pricing team drives key initiatives that directly influence our revenue streams, unit economics, and product strategy. The team builds and evolves the common systems used to translate underwriting insights into accurate risk and profitability decisions for every loan we originate, while enabling a seamless borrower experience across products.
As a Principal Software Engineer on Core Pricing, you will provide technical leadership that spans engineering, machine learning, and product organizations — not just the Pricing team. You will shape the long-term architecture, strategy, and operating model for pricing systems that serve multiple product lines and stakeholders across the company. Working in close partnership with engineering, ML, product, and business leaders across Personal Loans, Auto, HELOC, and adjacent platforms, you will lead the development of scalable, low-latency, highly reliable services that convert ML underwriting outputs into pricing decisions, and you will help define the future of Upstart's pricing platform as the company expands into new products, markets, and capabilities.
Our stack spans Python (Django, FastAPI, Celery), Kotlin/Spring Boot, gRPC/Protobuf, Temporal for workflow orchestration, AWS (S3, RDS/Postgres, ElastiCache), Kubernetes/Helm, and Datadog for observability.
How you'll make an impact
- Define the cross-company technical vision and roadmap for Upstart's pricing platform, ensuring alignment across Pricing, Personal Loans, Auto, HELOC, ML, and Product organizations.
- Lead the architectural evolution from tightly coupled, sequential workflows toward modular, reusable platform capabilities across loan products.
- Design and improve Tier 0/Tier 1 services where latency, throughput, availability, and financial correctness are all critical.
- Partner closely with machine-learning scientists and engineers to create reliable, scalable boundaries between models and production pricing systems.
- Balance the sometimes-competing needs of engineering, machine learning, and product teams across organizations, making pragmatic trade-offs that serve Upstart's broader technical and business strategy.
- Clarify service, API, configuration, and ownership boundaries across Pricing, Personal Loans, Auto, HELOC, and adjacent platform teams.
- Evaluate runtime and language choices pragmatically, including where Python, Kotlin, Rust or Go best serve long-term system needs.
- Reduce operational burden through better testing, observability, failure isolation, incident learning, and architecture that limits blast radius.
- Lead company-wide technical discussions, surface trade-offs clearly, and build alignment across Engineering, ML, Product, Data, Security, Compliance, and business partners.
- Stay close to implementation through design reviews, prototypes, and critical code while mentoring senior technical leaders and making the people around you more successful.
- Prioritize technical-debt and platform investments based on business value, risk reduction, and long-term return rather than technical elegance alone.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field - or equivalent practical experience - plus 8 or more years of software engineering experience.
- A track record of setting architecture and technical direction for large, complex distributed systems used across multiple teams or products.
- Deep backend engineering experience and production proficiency in at least one of Python, Kotlin, or Java; willingness and ability to work effectively in a predominantly Python environment.
- Experience designing or operating Tier 0/Tier 1 services with demanding latency, throughput, availability, and correctness requirements.
- Strong understanding of APIs, service-oriented or modular architectures, containerization, cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS), and maintainable software design.
- Hands-on technical judgment: you can move from strategy and architecture into concrete designs, prototypes, debugging, and critical implementation decisions.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex systems, constraints, and trade-offs to technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Demonstrated success leading cross-organization technical decisions — balancing the needs of engineering, machine learning, and product teams — and influencing without direct authority.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and expanding the effectiveness and scope of other technical leaders.
- Strong product and business judgment, including the ability to balance delivery, reliability, technical debt, risk, and long-term investment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building calculation-heavy, real-time decisioning, pricing, marketplace, risk, fraud, payments, trading, auction, or advertising systems.
- Experience partnering with machine-learning teams or productionizing models at scale, including clear boundaries between modeling workflows and production services.
- Experience modernizing a mature or tightly coupled platform through staged migration while continuing to deliver customer and business value.
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, microservices, event-driven systems, and production observability.
- Additional production experience with Rust or another performance-oriented language.
- Background or applied exposure in statistics, mathematics, economics, econometrics, financial systems, or other quantitative domains.
- Experience in a rapidly scaling or changing organization where architecture had to evolve alongside the business.
Position location Remote
Travel requirements As a digital first company, the majority of your work can be accomplished remotely. The majority of our employees can live and work anywhere in the U.S but are encouraged to to still spend high quality time in-person collaborating via regular onsites. The in-person sessions’ cadence varies depending on the team and role; most teams meet once or twice per quarter for 2-4 consecutive days at a time.
At Upstart, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. The anticipated base salary for this position is expected to be within the below range. Your actual base pay will depend on your geographic location–with our “digital first” philosophy, Upstart uses compensation regions that vary depending on location. Individual pay is also determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
In addition, Upstart provides employees with target bonuses, equity compensation, and generous benefits packages (including medical, dental, vision, and 401k).
What you'll love
At Upstart, our benefits are designed to support your health, financial well-being, family, and personal growth. Here’s what you can expect:
- Competitive compensation, including base pay, bonus opportunities, and annual equity grants that vest quarterly
- Retirement benefits to help you plan for the future, including a 401(k) or Group Retirement Savings Plan with a company match of $2 for every $1 contributed, up to $15,000 annually (USD in the US, CAD in Canada)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with discounted stock purchase options for eligible employees (US only)
- Comprehensive health coverage designed to support you and your family, including medical, dental, vision, and wellness resources for US and supplemental health coverage for Canada.
- Health Savings Account contributions from Upstart for eligible plans (US only)
- Income protection benefits, including life insurance and disability coverage for added financial security
- Paid time off, sick leave, and company holidays, in line with local requirements
- Paid family and parental leave to support caregiving and major life moments (duration varies by country)
- Family-centered benefits to support fertility, parenthood, and caregiving needs
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offering mental health support and life-centered resources
- Financial wellness resources, including access to financial planning tools and a financial concierge service (US Only)
- Annual wellness allowance to support your physical and emotional well-being and personal development, based on what matters most to you
- Annual productivity allowance to invest in relevant tools and resources you need to do your best work, no matter where you work from
- Connection and community through team events, all-company updates, and employee resource groups (ERGs)
- Onsite perks, including catered lunches and fully stocked micro-kitchens when working from one of our offices in the Bay Area, Austin, Columbus, and New York City (opening Summer 2026!)
For roles based in Canada, please note that we are not currently able to hire in Quebec.
Upstart is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. Just as we are dedicated to improving access to affordable credit for all, we are committed to inclusive and fair hiring practices.
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing an application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please email candidate_accommodations@upstart.com
https://www.upstart.com/candidate_privacy_policy
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Working at Upstart
Upstart's 39 open roles are manager level or above, and about 87% are remote or hybrid. The most active teams are business strategy, business operations, and software engineering. Upstart is a fintech company that applies AI-driven underwriting to consumer lending, partnering with banks and credit unions to offer personal loans, auto refinancing, and home equity products. Engineering, product, compliance, and legal roles make up a significant share of open positions, reflecting the company's combined focus on technology development and regulatory oversight. Most Upstart roles are based in Remote, with some in San Mateo and Austin.
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How many jobs is Upstart hiring for right now?
Upstart is hiring for 39 open roles on Migrate Mate as of August 31, 2026, updated daily, concentrated in business strategy and business operations. Openings span engineering, product, compliance, legal, and design, reflecting Upstart's combined focus on technology and financial services operations.
What kinds of roles does Upstart hire for?
The most active teams are business strategy, business operations, and software engineering. Upstart posts roles across software engineering, DevOps, infrastructure security, product design, product analytics, compliance, legal, and creative functions. The company also hires for operational roles such as funding delivery management. Most postings are manager level or above, though positions at the director and principal level appear alongside individual contributor openings.
Are Upstart jobs remote or in-person?
Mostly remote. About 87% of Upstart's open roles on Migrate Mate are remote or hybrid as of August 31, 2026, with the rest based in Remote. Each Upstart listing shows its work location so you can filter before applying.
How do I apply to a job at Upstart?
Find a role that matches your background among Upstart's open listings on Migrate Mate, then follow the listing through to Upstart's own careers page to submit your application directly. Upstart manages its own hiring process, so all applications, interviews, and offers are handled by the company.
What do Upstart jobs pay?
Listed salaries for Upstart roles on Migrate Mate range from about $80,000 to $275,000 per year as of August 31, 2026, with most postings at manager level or above. Some roles list hourly contract rates. Exact pay is set by Upstart and shown on each listing.
Does Upstart hire entry-level?
Most of Upstart's open roles on Migrate Mate are manager level or above as of August 31, 2026. Entry-level openings are limited. Check individual Upstart listings for stated experience requirements.
Where is Upstart hiring?
Most Upstart roles are based in Remote, with some in San Mateo and Austin, and about 87% offer remote or hybrid work as of August 31, 2026. Migrate Mate shows the location on each listing.