Principal Software Engineer, Capital Marketplace
Leads technical roadmap, architecture evolution, and innovation for Capital Supply systems at scale. Requires 8+ years experience building highly available consumer products, leading cross-team initiatives, and mentoring leaders.
About the job
Role Summary\nPrincipal Engineer on the Capital Supply team, collaborating across Upstart's business and engineering to drive technical roadmap, architecture, and innovation for Capital Marketplace systems.\n\n## How you’ll make an impact:\n- Help define the Capital Supply engineering’s longer term technical roadmap ensuring alignment with business objectives\n- Guide the architectural evolution of Capital Supply systems with an emphasis on systems shared across the Capital Market engineering teams\n- Uncover and drive alignment across complex technical requirements, designs, trade-offs, influencing product direction\n- Proactively evaluate, prototype, and roll out new technologies/frameworks to help cultivate a culture of innovation\n- Partner with product leaders to shape product direction and drive business impact across all Capital Supply products\n- Lead from the front, while mentoring and developing technical leaders\n- Identify and prioritize high leverage and impactful opportunities\n\n## What we’re looking for:\n### Minimum requirements:\n- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics, or a related field (or its equivalent) + 8 years of experience\n- Strong technical and software engineering fundamentals including a demonstrated ability to build and own large-scale, highly available consumer products\n- Ability to explain complex business and technical concepts to all audiences\n- Experience leading large cross-team initiatives at companies that have gone through periods of rapid business or organizational growth\n- Track record of successfully mentoring and developing technical leaders\n\n### Preferred qualifications:\n- Has defined and executed on longer term (multi-quarter +) technological visions or strategies for multi-team organizations\n- Has driven initiatives of significant depth or breadth with demonstrated results in engineering process, technology platforms, or overall productivity of others\n- Ability to identify gaps in organizational knowledge, tools, and practices and produce and execute on plans to address those gaps\n- Ability to influence and lead without direct authority\n- Strong product and analytical mindset that allows you to think in terms of ROI, risk, and trade offs
Skills
Software Engineering, System Architecture, Large-Scale Systems, High Availability, Technical Leadership, Mentoring, Prototyping, Roadmap Planning, Cross-Team Collaboration, Innovation
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