Paralegal, 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
- A law degree or equivalent legal qualification, or working towards a legal qualification
- At least 1 years’ relevant experience in a commercial/corporate environment
- Ambition to learn within the entrepreneurial spirit of the Upvest and from in-house team of experts whilst developing your own skills
- Helpful, hardworking approach with high degree of initiative
- Collaborative approach and ability to work well in a team
- Flexible can-do attitude and the ability to multitask
- Sound judgement and first-rate communication skills
- English language skills are essential
What the job involves
- Be part of the story to build an easily accessible investment product with regulatory excellence reaching 100m end users
- Provide support to the legal team at Upvest in the UK and Germany
- Enhance your legal skills, and make a significant impact in a leading fintech company
- Collaborate with the legal team to provide assistance on a variety of legal and regulatory issues, including financial regulations, commercial contracts, consumer T&Cs and privacy
- Assist with updating legal and compliance documents such as policies and manuals, as well as drafting, reviewing and executing a broad range of legal documents, including NDAs and commercial contracts
- Manage legal operations by improving and scaling processes to ensure efficiency and effectiveness using legal tech
- Maintain and organizing the contracts database, and generally leading on document management
- Assisting with general administrative tasks and ad-hoc projects to improve the processes within the Banking Team
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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