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# Software Engineer, Conversion

- **Company:** Upstart
- **Location:** Burlingame, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $142,000.0 - $196,600.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** A/B Testing, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Machine Learning, Web Applications, Backend, Information Technology, Front End Software Development, Microservices
- **Published:** July 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=fe7df1b6fb4e4412

## About the Role

If you're energized by tackling meaningful problems, excited to innovate with purpose, and motivated by work that truly matters, we'd love to hear from you., * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics, or a related field (or its equivalent) + 4 years of experience

 * Experience delivering end-to-end features across frontend and backend systems, including APIs and microservices.
 * Strong frontend development experience building customer-facing web applications with a focus on performance, usability, and experimentation.
 * Experience working in cross-functional environments with Product, Design, and other engineering teams., * Experience improving conversion funnels or other high-scale, metrics-driven user journeys through experimentation (e.g., A/B testing, personalization).
 * Experience operating in a microservices-based architecture.
 * Experience in fintech or other highly regulated, high-availability environments.

## Description

The Conversion Engineering team sits at the intersection of product performance and business growth at Upstart. We are responsible for optimizing how borrowers move through the application journey-from rate check to funding-directly impacting Conversion Rate, one of the company's most important operating metrics and a key driver of revenue.

As a Software Engineer on the Conversion Engineering team, you will play a critical role in building and evolving the core borrower experiences that drive ~80% of company revenue. You'll work on highly visible, user-facing systems such as the funding form and got rate page, helping to shape both the technical direction and execution of key initiatives.

Our team builds and iterates on high-impact experiences while partnering closely with Product, Design, and Machine Learning to launch new product flows, ship model upgrades, and continuously test and personalize borrower journeys. This is a high-impact team with ambitious goals and significant headcount growth planned.

How you'll make an impact

 * Deliver critical user-facing features that improve loan application and rate check experiences-directly driving improvements in conversion and funding form submission metrics.
 * Maintain full-stack web applications through monitoring of key system metrics such as latency and error rates at scale
 * Help define and build the next-generation, platform funding form that supports multiple products, contributing to architectural direction and long-term scalability.
 * Strengthen engineering excellence by improving system performance, reliability, and on-call health for the features you build and own.


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