We’re looking for fintech enthusiasts to join us in creating the financial infrastructure of tomorrow. We’re building the first European Investment API to enable any financial institution to offer a broad range of investment products in their apps. Our view is backed by Europe's largest tech VCs (Earlybird, Notion Capital, Partech, HV Capital, ABN AMRO Ventures) by renowned fintech entrepreneurs (including Maximilian Tayenthal, founder of N26, and Felix Haas, founder of IDnow) and Bessemer Venture Partners in the USA.

We’re based in Berlin but would consider hiring remotely for this role. If you do want to move to Berlin though, we’re happy to support your relocation.

At Upvest, our vision is to make investing as easy as spending money. By enabling any business to offer investment opportunities, our goal is to empower anyone to invest. Today, we count 100+ talented people from 30 different countries.

Role background:

We are seeking a full-time backend engineer to build a securities API for financial institutions, the first such API in Europe. Your goal is to take ownership of designing, developing and maintaining our microservice architecture (written in Go)

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Designing and building fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable systems using Microservice architecture powered by Docker, Kubernetes, LinkerD service mesh, and Kong as a Gateway
• Building event-driven applications using Kafka
• Working on different aspects of our API-product portfolio
• Developing data processing and storing mechanisms
• Working on improving the reliability of our API tools, as well as developing innovative new tools
• Working with an agile methodology with flexible processes
• Working with the cutting edge technologies (Go is the primary language) without legacy codebase

Job requirements:

• Prior experience with distributed systems
• Experience in Go
• Fluency with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL (transaction isolation, performance optimization)
• Fluency with event-driven architecture and concurrent algorithms
• Being proactive in learning new stacks and having a high sense of ownership

It's nice if you have:

• Experience with Investment products or Fintech domain in general is a big plus
• Experience in event-driven architectures, event streaming and event sourcing systems.
• Experience with non-SQL databases
• Experience with Docker, k8s, understanding principles of a service mesh
• Experience with Monitoring and Tracing using Datadog (or other modern observability tools)

Why Upvest?

• Greenfield projects. We’re building something quite complex and a first in Europe. This means we’re working with cutting-edge technologies and with no legacy code.
• Wellbeing. At Upvest, everyone has access to our in-house coach where you can have regular sessions to support you personally and professionally.
• Development. In keeping with one of our core values, ‘Learn and Grow’, every Upvenger has access to a development budget. In line with one of our other values, ‘Own the Outcome’, how you choose to make the most of it, is up to you.
• Flexibility. We work in a hybrid setup with the team distributed around Germany and Europe. We give you the choice (and budget) to spend your time where you are most comfortable and productive, either at home or the office. You choose.

Our values:

• Learn and grow. We aim high to shape our future. We give and request honest feedback knowing that we develop together. Progression over Perfection.
• Team first. We make it easy for others. We value our differences and are open to others' opinions. We win and celebrate together! Team over Egos.
• Own the outcome. Whether we win or we lose, we stand together. We are proactive and get the job done. Outcome over Process.
• Tell the story. We always start with the why. We share knowledge to empower others. Transparency over Complexity.

Upvest is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees