Senior Frontend Platform Engineer
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Job Location:
San Mateo, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Upstart
Upstart is the leading AI lending marketplace partnering with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit. By leveraging Upstarts AI marketplace Upstart-powered banks and credit unions can have higher approval rates and lower loss rates across races ages and genders while simultaneously delivering the exceptional digital-first lending experience their customers demand. More than 80% of borrowers are approved instantly with zero documentation to upload.
Upstart is a digital-first company which means that most Upstarters live and work anywhere in the United States. However we also have offices in San Mateo California; Columbus Ohio; and Austin Texas.
Most Upstarters join us because they connect with our mission of enabling access to effortless credit based on true risk. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Upstart wed love to hear from you!
The Team:
The Frontend Platform team champions frontend excellence at Upstart by empowering teams to engineer quality user experiences. We build tools and services that are used internally by the engineering design and product teams.
We are looking for an experiencedSenior Frontend Platform Engineer to help shape the future of our engineering platform and empower product teams to deliver exceptional user experiences with speed quality and this role you will own and evolve the core frontend platform frameworks and developer tooling that power our web and mobile applications. Youll collaborate closely with product engineers infrastructure teams and design systems partners to drive technical strategy set standards and solve cross-cutting challenges at scale.
How youll make an impact
- Platform Development: Design build and maintain the core frontend platform and tooling used across product engineering teams.
- Developer Experience: Lead efforts to improve build pipelines CI/CD workflows testing frameworks and local dev environments.
- Framework & Architecture: Guide adoption of technologies (e.g. React TypeScript React Native) and define architectural patterns that ensure scalability reliability and performance.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with design systems backend and infra teams to align frontend initiatives with company-wide engineering strategy.
Minimum Qualifications
- 6-8 years of professional frontend engineering experience with deep expertise in React and TypeScript; experience with mobile (React Native) is a plus.
- Strong knowledge of web performance testing strategies and modern frontend architectures. Solid understanding of observability and monitoring for frontend systems (eg: Sentry Datadog)
- Hands-on experience with modern build systems (eg: Turbo Webpack Vite) skilled in CI/CD tooling (eg: GitHub Actions CircleCI) and automation of release pipelines.
Preferred Qualifications
- You have experience building frameworks libraries or tooling that scaled across multiple teams or applications.
- Ability to partner effectively with engineers designers and PMs; excellent communication skills.
- Knowledge of microfrontend architecture and familiarity with different content rendering strategies.
Position location This role is available in the following locations: Remote-United States
Time zone requirements The team operates on the East/West coast time zones.
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.
What youll love:
- Competitive Compensation (base bonus & equity)
- Comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage with Health Savings Account contributions from Upstart
- 401(k) with 100% company match up to $4500 and immediate vesting and after-tax savings
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Life and disability insurance
- Generous holiday vacation sick and safety leave
- Supportive parental family care and military leave programs
- Annual wellness technology & ergonomic reimbursement programs
- Social activities including team events and onsites all-company updates employee resource groups (ERGs) and other interest groups such as book clubs fitness investing and volunteering
- Catered lunches snacks & drinks when working in offices
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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 locationwith 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).
Upstart is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to ensuring that underrepresented classes receive better access to affordable credit and are just as committed to embracing diversity and inclusion in our hiring practices. We celebrate all cultures backgrounds perspectives and experiences and know that we can only become better together.
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
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Key Skills
- APIs
- C/C++
- Computer Graphics
- Go
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Library Services
- Assembly
- GraphQL
- High Voltage
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