Top Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead and scale Upstart's Mobile Platform organization, define mobile platform vision, build shared capabilities and reusable components, improve onboarding and discoverability, deliver a robust native mobile experience (React Native), drive CI/CD, testing, observability, KPIs, and collaborate with Product, Design, Analytics, Legal, and Loan Product teams while hiring and mentoring engineering leaders.

Design, build, and scale authentication, authorization, and experimentation systems for Upstart's lending products. Implement OAuth/OIDC/SAML-based flows, secure APIs with containerized deployments, partner with security and product teams to improve IAM, mentor engineers, participate in architecture, and drive platform experimentation and lifecycle improvements.

Design and build scalable systems for Upstart Bank, translating regulatory requirements into software, improving reliability, and ensuring audit-readiness while collaborating with multiple teams.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and build scalable backend services for loan origination, improving reliability and operational efficiency. Responsibilities include modernizing infrastructure, supporting partner onboarding, and collaborating across teams to enhance lending processes.

The Senior Software Engineer will build scalable backend systems, maintain data workflows, and collaborate across teams to enhance marketing initiatives.

Build and maintain full‑stack, customer‑facing web experiences that improve borrower conversion. Deliver end‑to‑end features (frontend, APIs, microservices), monitor performance and reliability, partner with Product/Design/ML, run experimentation and personalization, and contribute to platform architecture and on‑call health.

Lead the architectural design and development of a new consumer credit product, focusing on backend systems, distributed services, and integrating AI tools. Mentor team members and influence product direction through engineering insights.

Build and scale customer-facing and backend systems for Upstart's Auto Secured Personal Loan product. Design eligibility, decisioning, funnel and workflow automation, collaborate with product, risk, and operations, deliver reliable production software in a regulated environment, and drive technical direction and observability for long-term platform expansion.

Provide technical leadership for internal platforms and security automation supporting Upstart Bank. Lead architecture, design, and implementation of platform services, APIs, relational schemas, authentication and RBAC systems. Partner with risk, compliance, and operations stakeholders, mentor engineers, mitigate technical risks, and drive long-term platform strategy and engineering standards.

Design, build, and maintain internal software platforms, APIs, integrations, and data workflows that support risk, compliance, legal, and bank operations. Translate stakeholder requirements into scalable architectures, relational data models, authorization and audit systems, and background processing. Produce technical designs, documentation, and contribute to platform-wide architecture and build-versus-buy decisions.