Senior Product Engineer, Upvest
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Investment API
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Investment API
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
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
- Experience with Investment products or the Fintech domain, in general
- Experience in event-driven architectures, event streaming, and event sourcing systems
- Experience with operating services in a decoupled, event-driven system, leveraging modern observability tooling (e.g. monitoring and tracing)
Desirable
- You're excited about fintech and building the financial infrastructure of tomorrow
- You work with the customer in mind
- You are a true team player and feel energzed in diverse teams
- You're hungry to learn and eager to grow quickly
What the job involves
- We’re looking for talented senior product engineers with a passion for both product and technology
- You’ll be a key part of building the first European Investment API, enabling financial institutions to offer efficient, transparent investment products such as fractional shares, smart portfolios, and savings plans
- Make an impact in a true product team with a large ownership scope
- Work with cutting-edge technologies (Go is the primary language; it’s okay if you’re willing to switch from another language) without a legacy codebase
- Work on improving the reliability of our API
- Deliver fast and often. We embrace an agile methodology with a retrospective and demo at the end of the two-week cycle
- Design, build and own event-driven, fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable distributed systems using a Microservice architecture powered by Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka and PostgreSQL
- As an engineer, you would join one of the following teams with their respective missions
- Trading Integrations - Connects Upvest to financial markets, is responsible for the execution of all orders placed through the platform
- Trading - Develops instruments for clients to trade different assets. They aim to simplify the complexities of trading by providing a unified API
- Governance - Responsible for managing the company's financial transactions and ensuring accurate record-keeping. They play a critical role in various aspects of the business, including trading, treasury, and reconciliation
- Users and Compliance - Enables Upvest to onboard and manage users, accounts and provide regulatory reporting for our clients in a compliant and automated way so we can quickly grow our user bases
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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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Oct 2023
$31.8m
LATE VC
Jun 2022
$42m
SERIES B
Total funding: $91.2m
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 values
- Learn and grow - We aim high to shape our future. We give and request honest feedback, knowing that we develop together. We value 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. We nurture teams, not egos
- Own the outcome - Whether we win or lose, we stand together. We are proactive and get the job done. There are many ways to reach the outcome
- Tell the story - We always start with the why. We share knowledge to empower others. We value transparency over complexity
Company HQ
Wrangelkiez, Berlin, Germany
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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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