TechOps Lead, 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
- The ability to think critically and come up with unique or innovative solutions to simplify workflows and improve security
- Experience in establishing and managing efficient technology services
- A strong understanding of macOS and Apple device management (MDM/DEP)
- Experience with automating processes using scripting languages or other workflow automation solutions (i.e. SaaSOps)
- Prior experience with Okta/Google Workspace is a plus
- Knowledge of our modern tech-stack (Golang, Python, Postgres, Docker, k8s) and/or Terraform is a plus
- Excellent communication and task management skills
- Relocate to our amazing office in Berlin :)
- We’re an English-speaking team, so no German knowledge will be required
What the job involves
- As our TechOps Lead, you are an engineering-minded technician, and you’ll help to build out a small but efficient TechOps function at Upvest
- The purpose of the TechOps function is to own most ‘internal’ technologies including endpoints and SaaS, and working with other business units to enable a high degree of automation of various business processes, including the adoption of emerging technologies to support the business
- You will be responsible managing the TechOps function which includes a majority of hands-on internal IT tasks, including SaaS management and office technology management
- Managing our core internal IT stack (i.e. Okta, Google Workspace, Slack, etc), user lifecycle management and security controls (working closely with our Security team)
- Managing our Mac laptop fleet, zero-touch DEP/MDM device deployments, and ensuring company endpoints meet the company’s security standards
- Supporting teams with finding, implementing and/or integrating tools and solutions they need
- Developing solutions that automate and augment IT processes (e.g. onboarding and offboarding) and improve user experience
- Use automation tools (e.g Okta Workflows, Tines) and discover ways to integrate high-value emerging technologies to enable business functions
- Provide helpdesk support to the business
- Take part in incident management activities if a security event occurs
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 8 rounds)
Dec 2024
$105.1m
SERIES C
Oct 2023
$31.8m
LATE VC
Total funding: $196.1m
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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