# Matthew Jacobs > Software Engineer, Technical Leader, and Angel Investor Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/matthewjacobs A results-driven engineer with a keen focus on user experience, adept priority management, and strong leadership to drive successful outcomes. I enjoy working closely with brilliant product managers and designers to create amazing products that provide the most impact. My passion lies in Financial Technology, and I thrive in dynamic startup environments that offer impactful products. Empowering small businesses to flourish is a cause close to my heart, and I am eager to contribute further in this domain. I am always welcome to opportunities to connect and grow my network, so feel free to contact me at codingmatty@gmail.com ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Upstart Jan 2022 – Present • Spearheaded multiple cross-functional initiatives to enhance dealer experiences in credit application processing, offer adjustments, and loan finalization. • Fostered collaboration among Upstart Lending team and Upstart Auto Retail team to streamline the process for receiving and finalizing Upstart auto loans. • Drove continuous improvements in developer experience across multiple repositories with different ownership structures to make it more consistent and easier to collaborate between projects. ### Angel Squad Member @ Hustle Fund Jan 2023 – Present ### Staff Software Engineer @ Starship Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 A modern HSA focused on the individual, providing features to help them save and grow their money. • Lead efforts in architecting and implementing a one-of-a-kind solution to help people fund money from friends and family into their HSAs. We allow users to create "Missions" and generate links that lead people to a public page to accept funds via Stripe and deposit money toward the users HSA. Feel free to test it out for yourself using the attached link below. • Worked on the integration to allow users to invest their HSA funds into portfolios using DriveWealth. - Helped in rebranding mobile app developed with React-Native. • Mentored team and improve development processes. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Starship Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 ### Senior Software Engineer @ Joust Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 Mobile app and service that provides banking services, invoice management, and invoice protection to freelancers and small businesses. Specific duties: • One of two engineers that worked on all of the features provided by our Ruby on Rails API for our mobile app to consume. • Migrated payment processors to own user experience, capture data points, and limit insufficient funds. This included the web pages that accepted the information all the way to sending it directly to the payment processor and handling results. • Provided support for our customer success team to be able to assist our users. This consisted of adding features to our custom admin console and sending application events to other services to assist in customer management. Admin console written in Angular.js and converted to React. • Implemented complete redesign for marketing website https://www.joust.com. Built in React on Next.js, and deployed as static assets to S3. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Kazoo HR Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Austin, Texas Area • Lead the effort of creating a shared User Interface (UI) Component library to simplify creating features using common styles and a consistent design. • Member of the rewards and recognition team to create features to help users and admins better understand their engagement. ### Software Engineer @ Condé Nast Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Austin, Texas Area • Part of a team that started migrating 23+ brands to a single backend codebase, with a library of reusable components, and tools to help increase developer productivity. The backend is built with Node, and the front-end components with React. • Created tools to help developers verify certain accessibility traits of React components. • Worked with remote group to increase Web Accessibility on Architectural Digest. • Helped to add Clever sub-brand to current Architectural Digest codebase by adding customized CSS and routing logic on the backend. • Developed new features to increase user engagement of digital content for Allure, Teen Vogue, Brides, and Self. ### Software Developer @ ActiveProspect Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Austin, Texas Area • Owned the development of new billing platform built from scratch in React to integrate into existing Rails app. This billing platform offers a way for users to add money to their account, as well as see all of their transactions. • Created changelog feature for flagship product, including backend support for storing changes, as well as front-end display for showing changes in an easily digestible manner. The backend was built with • Node, the front-end components with Angular, and the design challenges were solved in collaboration with the UX Designer. • Developed reusable UI components with Angular to display lists of integrations, both as a standalone page and integrated within different views. • Created email templates in EJS for notifying users of low balances and unusual activity, adhering to the strict guidelines for email templates. • Extended tests to expand coverage for continuous integration for flagship product in Node with Mocha, and for the billing platform in React with Jest and Enzyme. ### Applications Engineer @ Silicon Laboratories Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Austin, Texas Area • Worked on desktop UI that was the main interface customers used to interact with hardware product, built with C# using the WPF framework. • Took over ownership of legacy desktop UI product built with C# using WinForms. • Actively develop driver-level software for the graphical interface to communicate directly with the firmware on the chip, optimized for efficiency and speed. • Create sample code for out customers to use in their own design to interface with the audio tuner chip. • Helped with intern projects to learn how to manage others effectively, and actively worked with Human Resources to recruit college students at on­ campus events. ### Firmware Engineer Intern @ Silicon Laboratories Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Austin, Texas Area • Implemented needed features into Multi-Band Radio Tuner Firmware to help customers with product testing per Applications Engineering Team specifications. • Developed extendable features for Automated Test Build Server to help aid regression testing of Automotive-Grade Radio Tuner. • Worked with DSP team on projects pertaining to Radio-Frequency front end Digital Signal Processing. ### Embedded Software Developer, Student @ Texas Instruments Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Dallas, TX • Collaborated with small MSP430 Embedded Software Development team to develop low-overhead and efficient peripheral API for MSP430F5xx and F6xx microcontroller family of devices to support developers. http://www.ti.com/tool/msp430ware • Drafted separate module API specifications, held peer reviews, implemented and tested all API function calls of various microcontroller modules, including analog modules, real-time clock, serial communication, and system controls. ### Software Engineer, Student @ Research In Motion Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Irving, TX • Worked with mobile Operating System team to debug and optimize OS in pre-launched mobile smartphone to improve responsiveness and reliability. • Specifically dealt with memory analysis and optimization, as well as boot-up timing analysis and some automated hardware certification testing. ## Education ### Master of Science in Computer Science (Systems Track) The University of Texas at Dallas Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 ### Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering; Embedded Systems) The University of Texas at Dallas Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/codingmatty - Website: https://www.matthewjacobs.io --- Source: https://flows.cv/matthewjacobs JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/matthewjacobs/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22