Senior Engineering Manager, Core Pricing

Upstart is a leading AI lending marketplace focused on making borrowing more accessible and affordable for Americans. The Senior Engineering Manager for Core Pricing will lead a team responsible for building and maintaining critical backend services that price loans, ensuring high standards for accuracy and reliability while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of backend engineers and an engineering manager, fostering a culture of accountability and ownership
• Own team execution and delivery across multiple quarters, ensuring Core Pricing systems meet high standards for uptime, accuracy, and responsiveness
• Guide technical strategy across legacy and next-generation pricing systems, balancing short-term execution with long-term architectural goals
• Ensure changes to pricing systems are production-safe, observable, and rigorously validated, maintaining SLAs and leading incident response when needed
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Risk, Servicing, Analytics, and external partners to deliver complex, multi-team initiatives
• Use key metrics—including reliability, latency, and partner escalations—to align engineering priorities with borrower impact and business objectives

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics, or a related field (or its equivalent) + 8 years of experience, including at least 3 years of direct people management experience
• Strong executive presence, with a track record of influencing cross-functional leaders using data, business context, and sound judgment
• Strong product and business judgment, including the ability to assess tradeoffs, risk, and long-term implications
• Demonstrated ownership of systems with strict requirements for reliability, latency, and correctness
• Experience in pricing, fintech, lending, payments, marketplaces, or real-time decisioning systems
• Strong system design and architectural judgment, with the ability to go deep technically when needed
• Deep experience leading backend and distributed systems in production environments
• Proven success leading complex, cross-functional initiatives over multiple quarters
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience operating in regulated environments and working with external partners
• Experience in fintech or financial services, particularly in pricing, risk, or ML-adjacent domains where correctness and compliance are critical
• 4–7 years leading high-performing engineering teams
• Experience managing managers and leading organizations of 20+ engineers