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 are also open to hiring remotely in Germany or Estonia for this role. If you're currently based elsewhere but would like to move to Germany, we’re happy to support your relocation.

Your mission:

We are seeking an experienced backend engineer with a product mindset to help us build a securities API for financial institutions, the first such API in Europe. Together with the team, you take end-to-end ownership of advancing the integrations of the trading venues and settlement flows for our Investment API.

Team's mission:

Our team is on a mission to empower Upvest with a wide range of trading instruments for our clients. Current state of a Fintech world is that there’s no single standard and trading different assets come each with their nuances and complexities. We’re here to wrap it all, hide those complexities away and give it to our clients as a single and a first-class API. There are many challenges on a way there. As in not only scaling our product and software with the increasing number of trading venues, settlement flows and a variety of 3rd party integrations - but as well how can we serve millions of orders for millions of users in a scalable and resilient manner.

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Learn what it is like to work in a growing FinTech startup, and gain an understanding of how trading venues, security custodies, clearing houses and other market participants work.
• Learn to scale our domains with the constantly growing number of trading venues.
• Solving fun and complex technical challenges like scaling up the throughput of the FIX - Postgres - Kafka setup as the orders inflow is rapidly growing.
• Make an impact as we are ramping up the product.
• Deliver fast and often. We embrace an agile methodology with a retrospective and demo at the end of the two-week cycle.
• Design and build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable systems using a Microservice architecture powered by Docker, Kubernetes, LinkerD service mesh, and Kong as a Gateway.
• Build and operate event-driven applications using Kafka.
• Work with cutting-edge technologies (Go is the primary language) without a 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.
• Proactiveness in learning new stacks and having a high sense of ownership.

It’s nice if you have:

• Experience with Investment products or the Fintech domain, in general.
• Experience in event-driven architectures, event streaming, and event sourcing systems.
• Experience with Docker, k8s, understanding principles of a service mesh.
• Experience with operating services in a decoupled, event-driven system, leveraging modern observability tooling (e.g. monitoring and tracing).
  

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