Job Description:
Engineering Tech Lead
About Upbound
Upbound Group (NASDAQ: UPBD) is a technology-driven platform company focused on expanding financial opportunity through innovative and inclusive solutions. Our brands—Rent-A-Center, Acima, and Brigit—serve customers across both digital and retail channels, with over 2,400 locations across the U.S., Mexico, and Puerto Rico. We’re headquartered in Plano, TX.
About the Role
We’re looking for an Engineering Tech Lead to join our Enterprise & Store Technology team. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll spend about 40–50% of your time coding, while also guiding the team on design, architecture, and delivery.
You’ll play a key role in driving end-to-end development, partnering closely with product and business teams, and ensuring we’re building scalable, high-quality solutions.
We’re also evolving how we build software—so we’re looking for someone who’s comfortable leveraging modern AI tools (like GitHub Copilot) and can help introduce smarter, more efficient ways of working across the engineering team.
What You’ll Be Doing
Delivery & Execution
Lead projects end-to-end—from design through deployment and production support
Drive code quality through reviews, best practices, and performance optimization
Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with our architecture
Technical Leadership
Guide and mentor engineers, helping elevate overall team capability
Provide direction on design decisions and implementation approaches
Work across teams and vendors to ensure smooth integration and delivery
AI & Engineering Efficiency
Help the team adopt tools like GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted development tools
Look for opportunities to improve delivery speed through automation (testing, documentation, etc.)
Explore ways to incorporate AI-driven features into applications where it makes sense
Collaboration
Partner closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions
Work with offshore teams and vendors to keep delivery on track
Help resolve dependencies and unblock teams quickly
Quality & Operations
Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues
Ensure applications perform reliably in production
Support releases, UAT, and continuous improvements post-launch
What We’re Looking For
Technical Skills
Strong full-stack development experience
Frontend: React or Angular
Backend: Node.js, Java, or Python
Experience building microservices and APIs (REST/JSON)
Strong background in cloud environments (AWS preferred)
Solid SQL and database experience
Leadership & Approach
Experience leading or mentoring engineers
Comfortable owning delivery from start to finish
Strong collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams
Nice to Have
Experience using AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.) in development workflows
Exposure to building data-driven or intelligent features
Background in retail or omni-channel environments
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
12+ years of experience in software development
2+ years in a technical leadership role
Experience working in enterprise-scale, cloud-based environments
Sponsorship
Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
Upbound Group is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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Open job postingAbout the company
The cloud service providers of today run their interfaces and services with control planes. They're able to enable self-service and flexibility to their customers without letting go of control, governance, reliability or security. Meanwhile, enterprises continue to run their cloud infrastructure with config — resulting in instability, security risks and low productivity. Upbound is democratizing the best kept secret in cloud computing — the control plane. By leveraging custom APIs, cloud engineers are no longer hindered by configuration drift, multiplying workspaces and frustrated developers. With Upbound, platform engineers get centralized control, governance and stability and developers get freedom of self-service. Upbound is the creator and maintainer of the popular open source project Crossplane, a framework for building cloud native control planes. The company is a Series B startup and has raised $69M in total funding. Upbound's backers include GV (formerly Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital and Intel Capital. For more information, please visit upbound.io.