Senior Engineering Manager, Upstart Bank
Lead engineering teams building critical infrastructure for Upstart Bank, a modern AI-powered banking platform. Translate regulatory and product needs into scalable, audit-ready systems for payments, funding, reporting and integrations in a regulated fintech environment.
About the job
How you’ll make an impact
- Lead and grow one or more engineering teams responsible for a critical area of the Upstart Bank platform
- Drive execution across complex, bank-critical systems in areas such as ledgering and funding, deposits and payments, reporting, or integrations
- Partner with Product, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Finance, and Operations to translate business and regulatory needs into technical plans and delivered software
- Contribute to technical direction and architecture for your area, ensuring systems support reliability, resilience, security, traceability, and auditability
- Manage cross-functional dependencies and improve the predictability and quality of delivery across teams
- Build engineering processes that support internal controls, audits, change management, and reliable operation in a regulated environment
- Hire, coach, and develop engineers and emerging engineering leaders
- Foster a culture of rigor, ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years of engineering management experience
- Experience leading engineering teams through complex, cross-functional platform or infrastructure initiatives
- Strong technical background with experience contributing to architecture and technical direction for distributed systems, cloud platforms, or business-critical infrastructure
- Experience operating in regulated, high-control, or high-reliability environments where quality, controls, auditability, and change management are critical
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building or integrating core financial infrastructure such as ledgering, payments, deposits, funding systems, reporting, or financial integrations
- Experience in banking, fintech, payments, lending, or other regulated financial systems
- Experience building platforms that support internal controls, audits, and reliable operation in regulated environments
- Experience leading platform modernization, core-system launches, vendor integrations, or major infrastructure transformations
- Experience developing senior engineers, tech leads, or emerging engineering leaders
- Demonstrated ability to balance speed, quality, reliability, and compliance in high-stakes technical environments
- Interest in improving access to credit through technology and scalable financial infrastructure
Skills
Engineering Management, Distributed Systems, Cloud Platforms, Ledgering, Payments, Deposits, Funding Systems, Financial Integrations, Regulatory Compliance, Auditability, Change Management
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