Trainee Software Engineer, Upvest
12-month position
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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
- You have completed a Computer Science or related degree, or you are part of a degree program that allows or mandates an Industrial Placement Year
- You have achieved or are on track to achieve a First or Upper Second-Class degree from an accredited university
- You hold the right to work in Germany
- You can demonstrate your ability to write computer programs and solve problems through code
- You're excited about fintech and building the financial infrastructure of tomorrow
- Your passion for technology is matched only by your satisfaction in solving real world problems
- You are a true team player and feel energised in diverse teams
- You're hungry to learn and eager to grow quickly
What the job involves
- You'll take on a 12-month salaried position that offers a "paved road" into a software engineering career with one of Europe's fastest growing and most respected FinTechs
- Through a structured education program, you'll make the transition from academic life to industrial software engineering in a way that's both easy and effective
- You'll be placed into a working Product Engineering tribe in Berlin, London or Tallinn, where you'll develop real-world engineering skills in direct partnership with senior members of Upvest's world-class engineering team
- Throughout the program, you'll build valuable experience developing cloud-native microservices in Go and working with technologies like Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL, OpenAPI, and TypeScript
- You'll learn to deliver high-quality outcomes effectively within a Secure Software Development Life-Cycle, while utilising cutting-edge software engineering tools including AI tools to master efficient engineering
- You'll also apply "Product Thinking" to navigate the Investment domain
- Upon successful completion of the program, top performers will receive a full-time offer to continue their career with Upvest
- For students on an Industrial Placement Year, this offer can be deferred until after graduation
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 9 rounds)
Mar 2026
$90m
LATE VC
Dec 2024
$105.1m
SERIES C
Total funding: $289.8m
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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