Full-Time
Staff Full Stack Engineer
Posted on 9/23/2024
UpBound
51-200 employees
Cloud-based solutions for infrastructure management
No salary listed
Senior, Expert
Remote in USA
- Written lots of responsive and performant User Interfaces (UIs - TypeScript preferred)
- Developed interfaces solving for cloud computing infrastructure management or Kubernetes management concerns
- Designed reliable, beautiful, and delightful to use Single Page Applications (SPA) with a variety of frameworks (React is ideal)
- Designed and developed APIs and services that are tuned for performance, observability, security, scalability, and high reliability
- Written test plans and implemented test cases to keep your code to a high standard of quality, using libraries such as Jest and react-testing-library, as well as end-to-end testing frameworks like Cypress
- Followed CSS best practices for designing responsive user interfaces, such as Flex and Grid
- Managed application state with libraries such as Redux
- Optimized the packaging and deployment of your applications with bundling tools like Webpack
- Internalized how important owning the “face” of the product is and the effect it has on customer experience
- Architected and deployed highly scaled and reliable applications in multiple environments
- Incorporated modern operational and application delivery tools and methodologies into your production deployment workflows, like CI/CD, IaC, and GitOps
- Designing and building the end user facing experiences of Upbound Console
- Designing and developing backend declarative, RESTful, and GraphQL APIs to retrieve application data and build dynamic visualizations and experiences
- Optimizing and troubleshooting Single Page Applications (SPA) across a diverse variety of environments (browsers, etc.)
- Reporting and fixing bugs in private and public projects
- Designing and authoring test plans, unit testing, and integration testing to ensure high quality code that is free of regressions
- Mentoring more junior members of the team and providing high quality constructive feedback on pull requests and design documents
- Partnering with other disciplines and roles on a shared mission, demonstrating highly effective communication and collaboration skills
- Supporting the full project lifecycle - discovery, analysis, architecture, design, documentation, building, migration, automation, and production-readiness
- You have worked in a startup and distributed/remote team before, and understand the unique challenges of a startup environment
- You have built or contributed to backend services written in the Go programming language
- You have have been responsible for deploying/managing workloads running on Kubernetes in production
- You have a history of speaking at technology conferences, blogging/writing technical articles, and/or contributing to a popular open source project
Upbound provides cloud-based solutions designed to help businesses streamline their operations and manage their cloud infrastructure more effectively. Their services include managed control planes that allow platform teams to scale resources as needed, ensuring optimal performance. A key feature is the ability to auto-scale control planes to support platforms with over 1,000 Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), which means resources can adjust automatically based on demand. Upbound also offers Upbound Spaces, enabling organizations to deploy managed control planes in their own environments, which is beneficial for compliance with data privacy regulations. Unlike many competitors, Upbound focuses on simplifying the management of various cloud service providers and tools through centralized control. The company's goal is to empower businesses to innovate rapidly while maintaining efficient infrastructure management, with a subscription-based model that generates recurring revenue.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$67.1M
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington
Founded
2017
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Increased adoption of Kubernetes boosts demand for Upbound's Crossplane solutions.
- Multi-cloud strategies create opportunities for Upbound's centralized control solutions.
- Rise of platform engineering increases need for Upbound's managed control planes.
What critics are saying
- Name confusion with rent-to-own company involved in a lawsuit poses reputational risk.
- Increased competition in cloud-native platforms may dilute Upbound's market share.
- Rapid technological advancements require continuous innovation, straining Upbound's resources.
What makes UpBound unique
- Upbound offers managed control planes powered by Crossplane, a unique cloud-native solution.
- The company provides auto-scaling for platforms with over 1,000 Custom Resource Definitions.
- Upbound Spaces allows deployment of managed control planes in private environments for data compliance.
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6 month growth
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↓ -4%2 year growth
↑ 0%Upbound, developer of AI-driven software designed for b2b sales development, raised $100,000 of venture funding.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has accused rent-to-own company Acima of tricking customers into high-cost financing agreements. The CFPB on Friday (July 26) sued Acima — owned by Upbound, formerly known as Rent-a-Center — alleging that the company disguised many of its credit agreements as leases to get around consumer protection laws. “Due to Acima’s deception and obstruction, many consumers did not understand they were agreeing to expensive markups, exorbitant finance charges, and having few ways to escape their contracts,” the bureau said in a news release
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has accused rent-to-own company Acima of tricking customers into high-cost financing agreements. The CFPB on Friday (July 26) sued Acima — owned by Upbound, formerly known as Rent-a-Center — alleging that the company disguised many of its credit agreements as leases to get around consumer protection laws. “Due to Acima’s deception and obstruction, many consumers did not understand they were agreeing to expensive markups, exorbitant finance charges, and having few ways to escape their contracts,” the bureau said in a news release
Upbound, the control plane company behind the popular open-source project Crossplane, has announced the newest release of Upbound available everywhere, with several enterprise features bringing faster time-to-value to companies building cloud native platforms.
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Upbound, the control plane company behind the popular open source project Crossplane, today announced the newest release of Upbound available everywhere, with several enterprise features bringing faster time-to-value to companies building cloud native platforms. This leap-forward release offers a unified managed Crossplane experience that’s available for customers anywhere–whether that’s Upbound’s multi-tenant SaaS or single-tenant on customers’ own infrastructure. Along with a global Console with several features for platform operators, automatic upgrades, and enterprise security, Upbound enables platform engineers to get started with control planes faster and more easily manage Crossplane at an enterprise scale.After a year of 3x sales growth with customers like Deutsche Kreditbank, Gameloft, Millennium bcp, Variphy and more, Upbound is poised to accelerate enterprise-ready Crossplane for platform engineering teams globally.“Companies building out Crossplane-based platforms at scale have to deal with issues like tenancy and isolation when managing resources across all their cloud accounts. The latest release of Upbound enables customers to rapidly adopt and scale Crossplane by adopting a multi-Crossplane architecture, automation, added security, and the peace of mind to view and manage it from one place,” said Jan Willies, platform architect, Accenture.“You build it, you manage it” has reached a tipping point where DevOps and platform teams run into a chaotic mess administering their internal developer platforms (IDPs) alone. Platform teams seek flexibility through common, cloud native tooling while maintaining necessary security and governance controls. The solution is fundamentally building their own unified platform using control planes akin to the cloud providers.Crossplane Reinvented for the Enterprise CloudWith Upbound, platform engineers create their own central cloud native platform