Analytical Engineer, Upvest
Investment API
Open for applications
Investment API
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
Upvest's mission is to make investing as easy as spending money and to enable businesses to build investment experiences their customers love.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ Years of Experience: Proven track record in building data warehouse products, designing code-based ETL processes, and delivering robust BI solutions with strong dimensional modeling skills within an analytical engineering context
- SQL Mastery: Proficient in SQL with a passion for writing efficient, optimized queries that form the backbone of scalable, maintainable analytical systems
- Advanced dbt Experience: Demonstrated expertise with dbt (Core) for data modeling and transforming raw data into actionable, business-ready analytical layers
- Cloud Data & BI Tools: Familiarity with modern cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery) and BI tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau, PowerBI, Mixpanel) to deliver comprehensive analytical solutions
- Data Quality & Monitoring: Expertise in data quality management, including the design and implementation of robust monitoring frameworks to ensure data integrity and reliability
- Effective Communication: Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical and business ideas clearly and simply, making data insights accessible to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Business Acumen: Strong strategic approach to stakeholder management, ensuring that analytical engineering initiatives are aligned with overall business objectives
- Fintech Experience: Prior experience in a Fintech B2B environment is a significant plus
- Proven experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams to deliver results
- Ability to put strategy into action by linking high-level objectives with specific details and moving smoothly between them
- Proficiency in SQL (we use Google Big Query) and a computing language such as Python (or or another programming language like Java or Go)
- At least 3 years experience working with dbt (Data Build Tool)
- Strong understanding of Git workflows and version control best practices (we won’t teach you terminal and git)
- Familiarity with advanced programming concepts, such as metaprogramming (Looker Liquid, dbt Jinja), is a plus
- Proficiency with the command line interface (Bash, ZSH, etc.) and ability to keep your IDE and tools in shape
What the job involves
- At Upvest, you'll become an integral part of our Data Management community where Analysts, and Engineers collaborate to learn and grow together
- Moreover, our integrated organisational structure provides you with the opportunity to work closely across finance, product, engineering, and operations areas
- Develop & Maintain Business Logic: Create and refine dbt models that transform raw data into well-organized, business-ready tables
- Translate complex business requirements into robust SQL transformations and aggregated metrics
- Ensure Quality & Governance: Implement comprehensive testing and maintain clear documentation for all data models
- Collaborate with the broader central data team and Data Engineering to guarantee that the raw data and subsequent transformations adhere to strict quality standards
- Seamless Integration: Structure the datamart layer to support efficient connections with our BI tools (Looker)
- Work with analysts across teams to understand reporting needs and adapt models to support evolving business questions
- Interface Between Teams: Serve as the liaison between the technical data pipelines and business-facing analytics
- Ensure that every transformation reflects practical business logic, translating technical insights into meaningful business outcomes across the organization
- Data Architecture & Quality Assurance: Within the central data team, you will architect and optimize our analytical infrastructure to ensure complete data consistency and integrity
- You will design and implement scalable data models, enforce rigorous testing, and document business logic so that every data asset is accurate and dependable
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, developers, and analysts as part of the central data team
- Your role will bridge technical and business perspectives, ensuring that data solutions are seamlessly integrated into our B2B products and services and that they reflect our organization’s strategic goals
- Data Strategy & Product Innovation: Drive our evolving data strategy by identifying opportunities to transform data into new revenue streams
- As a central data team member, you’ll contribute to enhancing our financial APIs and services while helping evolve our data capabilities into a standalone, marketable product offering
- Data-Driven Impact: You will have the opportunity to work on projects that directly influence the success of our financial API offerings
- Your data analyses and insights will shape decision-making, improve client experiences, and contribute to the growth of our business
- Variety of Data Challenges: You'll confront a broad spectrum of data-related tasks, focusing on careful data modelling rather than mere extraction
- Advanced analytics and visualisation will be integral parts of your role
- Each project will offer fresh and engaging opportunities to refine your analytical expertise
- Collaboration: Expect a collaborative environment where you'll work closely with talented professionals across different teams, including developers, product managers, and financial experts
- Collaboration is at the heart of what we do
- Continuous Learning: You'll enjoy ongoing opportunities for professional development
- We provide comprehensive training programs, workshops, and resources to enhance your data analysis skills and keep you at the forefront of industry trends
- An experienced team and culture-driven organisation: Despite the early stage of the company, we have assembled a world-class team with lots of experience across all key domains that we require for our success, from banking and risk to regulatory, legal and compliance to product and engineering
- The organisation is also full of people who have successfully scaled companies before, who understand the importance of live and breath culture and “people first”
Our take
Upvest is a fintech startup that empowers financial services companies to provide their customers with access to a full range of financial assets, including stocks, ETFs and crypto products. Upvest's investment API integrates seamlessly with its customers existing systems and is designed to scale easily, freeing companies from the need to develop their own brokerage and custody infrastructure from scratch.
As one of the few companies in Germany that is licensed for both the custody of traditional securities and crypto, Upvest is able to provide its services across Europe. Its solution has been readily adopted by some major players in the space including Ginmon, Vivid and ABN AMRO.
Upvest is backed by a number of Europe's largest tech VCs (Earlybird, Notion Capital, Partech, HV Capital, ABN AMRO Ventures) alongside American investment monolith BlackRock. In 2023 it closed a VC investment round which the company has claimed is one of the largest in the German fintech arena. Its impressive capital raise will go some way to achieving Upvest's goals of profitability as it expands into the US market.
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Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Dec 2024
$105.1m
SERIES C
Oct 2023
$31.8m
LATE VC
Total funding: $197m
Company benefits
- Greenfield projects - We’re building something quite complex. A first in Europe. This means you get to work with cutting-edge technologies, with no legacy code.
- Wellbeing - Everyone here has access to our in-house coach. You can have regular sessions to support you personally and professionally. We also believe it’s important to have time out to rest and recover, which is why we offer 30 days’ holiday.
- Development - In keeping with one of our values, ‘Learn and grow’, every Upvenger has access to a development budget. And in line with one of our other values, ‘Own the outcome’, how you make the most of it is up to you.
- Flexibility - We work in a hybrid set-up, with the team spread around Germany and other parts of Europe. We give you the choice and budget to work where you’re most comfortable and productive, either at home or in the office. You choose.
Company HQ
Wrangelkiez, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Martin Kassing
(CEO)They have experience in fintech, private equity and capital markets. Founded another fintech, Shop.co, which was acquired by Klarna.
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