Senior Cloud Engineer, Upvest
Investment API
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Investment API
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
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
- Proven experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with expertise in core services such as Compute Engine, GKE, BigQuery, and Cloud Storage
- Deep knowledge of cloud architecture principles, including scalability, high availability and disaster recovery
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform
- Proficiency in automation and CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or Cloud Build
Desirable
- Hands-on experience with Crossplane for infrastructure management and control
- In-depth TCP/IP and data center networking (VPN, Cross-Connect) knowledge
- Experience working in a highly regulated business
- Basic familiarity with Kubernetes
- Knowledge of FinOps practices for cloud cost management
- Strong understanding of security frameworks and tools (e.g., IAM, VPC Security, Cloud Security Posture Management)
- Experience with observability tools and platforms such as Opentelemetry, DataDog, Stackdriver, Prometheus and Grafana
- Familiarity with Platform Engineering methodologies and tools
What the job involves
- As a Senior Cloud Engineer in the Platform Tribe, you will play an important role in growing and shaping our cloud platform and architecture
- You will work to ensure our cloud components are secure, cost-efficient, self-serviceable and reusable
- Collaborate with Platform Engineering Teams – Design, implement, and optimize cloud services, advising teams on leveraging Google Cloud and Crossplane
- Enhance our Cloud Platform – Improve scalability, resilience, and efficiency by building reusable components and optimizing cloud resource consumption
- Make Metrics-Driven Improvements – Track and enhance key metrics around cost, availability, and security
- Automate Infrastructure – Develop pipelines for seamless deployment and advocate best practices in Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Improve Security & Compliance – Implement cloud-native security, align with compliance standards, and manage third-party solutions
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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