Senior Software Engineer, Upvest
Platform
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Investment API
Open for applications
Investment API
101-200 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
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
- A product mindset is essential, as the team is working with short iterations and feedback loops to make sure our products have a high adoption rate
- Strong product mindset and interest in building with and 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
Desirable
- Familiarity with Domain Driven Design
- Data-driven development approach with a sense for feedback loops
- Experience with auth frameworks and familiarity with OAuth
- Experience with GCP
- Experience with the GitHub API
- Deep knowledge of DataDog
- Experience with event-driven architecture, ideally using Kafka
- Experience developing frontends
What the job involves
- You will work on products that are part of the core infrastructure of our API, including:
- 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
- Self-service tools: tools for engineers to access platform capabilities in a convenient and compliant manner, e.g. infrastructure provisioning
- Test Tooling: we provide self-service and end-to-end tooling designed for functional testing of Upvest’s customer-facing APIs
- AuthZ/N: Proper authentication and authorization are vital for a financial product, and we provide a flexible solution for teams to use
- 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
- 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 design 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
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. This was followed up by an impressive Series C at the end of 2024, which is being used to grow its team, enhance its product and cement its presence in the UK.
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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: $197.5m
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
Kollwitzkiez, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Martin Kassing
(Founder & 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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