Upvest, founded in 2017, enables any financial institution to offer great investment experiences to its customers. Upvest is an investment firm regulated by the German supervision authority (BaFin). The company currently employs 160+ people across Europe with its headquarters based in Berlin, Germany.

The company is backed by the world’s largest venture capital funds and investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, BlackRock, Earlybird, HV Capital, Notion Capital, and ABN Amro Ventures, as well as by renowned fintech entrepreneurs (including Maximilian Tayenthal, founder of N26, and Felix Haas, founder of IDnow).

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 offering a wide range of efficient and transparent investment products, such as stocks and ETFs in nominal, portfolio, and fractional form. Our mission and vision is to make investing as easy as spending money.

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

Team's mission:

Develop, own and focus on improving the custom-built shared services and libraries in Upvest Engineering that enable engineering teams to deliver their services. Improve engineering productivity through purpose-built tools and associated processes.

We are an internally focused team. All Upvest engineers are our partners, and improving their experience is our goal. You will work on products that are part of the core infrastructure of our API, including:

• AuthZ/N: Proper authentication and authorization are vital for a financial product, and we provide a flexible solution for teams to use

• CI/CD: Besides automating integration and delivery, this product handles the regulatory obligations that Upvest must meet and has a high impact on the overall efficiency of the engineering department

• Test Tooling: we provide self-service and end-to-end tooling designed for functional testing of Upvest’s customer-facing APIs

• API Gateway: we manage and develop the microservice API gateway

• Shared libraries: as a development team, we curate and provide shared libraries that allow us to improve the developer experience for our partner teams

The responsibilities are diverse, which keeps our daily work-life engaging. The team is open to new challenges and eager to learn and grow. We are planning to expand our responsibilities due to the crucial role Engineering Enablement plays in improving the lives of engineers at Upvest. Part of our work is productizing out-of-the-box solutions; therefore, every team member must be able to navigate cloud technologies.

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Design and build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable systems using a microservice architecture powered by Docker, Kubernetes, LinkerD service mesh, and Kong as a gateway

• Take our internal platform initiatives to the next level by helping us to architect the right abstraction layers and implementing features used by many engineers

• Work on products backed by a diverse set of technologies, including HTTP and gRPC APIs

• Improving the reliability of our API tools and developing innovative new tools

• Collaborating with engineers on the team, as well as cross-functional stakeholders, to develop solutions for domains which are underserved by existing tooling

• Learn & grow together with your peers in a growing FinTech startup

Job requirements:

• Strong product mindset and interest in building for engineers

• Strong communication skills

• You love working on products with high dependability requirements

• Experience with CI/CD automation and observability

• Fluency with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL

• Experience with Go (or willingness to make Go your day-to-day language)

• Experience with Cloud technologies

• Experience with k8s

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with Domain Driven Design

• Data-driven development approach with a sense for feedback loops

• Experience with event-driven architecture, ideally using Kafka

• Experience with auth frameworks and familiarity with OAuth

• Experience with GCP

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