Upgrade is a fintech unicorn founded in 2017. We are the fastest-growing company in the Americas (Financial Times). In the last five years, over 15 million people have applied for an Upgrade card or loan, and we have delivered over $10 billion in affordable and responsible credit. Our innovative Upgrade Card is the fastest growing credit card in America (Nilson Report). Combining the flexibility of a credit card with the low cost of an installment loan helps us redefine banking.

Upgrade has been named a “Best Place to Work in the Bay Area” three years in a row, one of the “Top Companies to work for in Arizona”, and we have received awards for being a best company for Diversity, Women, Culture, and Veterans.

We are looking for new team members who get excited about designing and delivering new and better products to join a team of 900 talented and passionate professionals. Come join us if you like to tackle big problems and make a meaningful difference in people's lives.

About our Team:

At Upgrade, the Platform team works horizontally with our different engineering teams. We build tools and shared libraries to simplify / abstract / speedup the day to day of our developers.

We are working on enabling our teams to better “observe” our services in production, and define meaningful alerts via SLI, SLO, Error budgets. We do rely on some open source and vendor tools, but we need help to push this to the next level.

Other projects in flight:

-Canary deployments

-Improving how our engineers interact with Kafka, via more self-service tools

-Improving the feature flag experience

-Dependabot pipeline

-Revamping our Session Management

We are looking for a curious engineer interested to learn and work with different programming languages, and on different technologies.

This is a remote position based in Canada.

What You'll Do:

• Help drive one of our 2022 goals (see above)
• Code new tools or new features to our existing tools
• Interact with the different engineering teams, identify how our platform is helping them and what’s missing
• Helping with trouble-shooting and problem solving.

Requirements (Please apply if you only have a few in there!)

• Good programming skills in at least one of the following languages: Java, Golang or NodeJs
• Knowledge of Kubernetes
• Some experience deploying services using Kafka or another messaging service
• Some experience with Prometheus
• Worked in a microservice architecture and the challenges that come with it :)
• Basic AWS knowledge
• Good communication skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.

What We Offer You:

• Competitive salary and stock option plan. 
• 100% paid coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance. 
• Unlimited vacation. 
• Learning stipend for personal growth and development. 
• Paid parental leave.
• Health and wellness initiatives.

Interested in joining Upgrade but don't think this role is for you? Check out our careers page!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.