# Senior Engineering Manager, Upstart Bank
**Company:** [Upstart](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/upstart)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $195K-$270K
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Cloud Platforms, Ledgering, Payments, Deposits, Reporting, Vendor Integrations, Fintech, Auditability, Change Management
**Posted:** 2026-05-07
> Leads engineering teams building critical Upstart Bank platform components like payments, funding, and reporting. Translates regulatory and business needs into scalable, compliant infrastructure while managing cross-functional delivery and team growth. Requires 8+ years engineering and 3+ years management experience.
## Job Description
## 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
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