Senior Platform Engineer (f/m/d)

Upvest is on a mission to make investing as easy as spending money. The company empowers businesses to offer a wide range of investment products and the best experience in the field of capital market investment and retirement planning. Upvest’s Investment API is easy to integrate so that fintechs and enterprises alike can save resources and fully focus on their core business.‍

Upvest is one of the few fintechs in Europe that can provide its B2B clients with the full range of investment opportunities in the areas of principal broking business, proprietary trading, and safe custody business for traditional securities. The company was founded in 2017 by Martin Kassing. Its latest €100m fundraising round (Series C) was led by Hedosophia and Sapphire Venture, with continued support from existing investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, BlackRock, Earlybird, HV Capital, Motive Ventures, and Notion Capital.

We currently employ 180+ people across Europe with our headquarters based in Berlin, Germany. We would consider hiring remotely for this role. If you do want to move to Berlin though, we’re happy to support your relocation.

Team's mission:

Develop, own and focus on improving the custom-built shared services and libraries in Upvest Engineering that enable engineering teams to deliver their services. Improve engineering productivity through purpose-built tools and associated processes.

We are an internally focused team. All Upvest engineers are our partners, and improving their experience is our goal. An engineer of the Engineering Enablement team must be an allrounder comfortable working on microservice development as well as automation scripts rather than infrastructure management. Our services range from a “classic” setup of a database behind an API to a service capable of orchestrating a workflow involving GitHub, Linear, Crossplane and Slack.

A product mindset is essential, as the team is working with short iterations and feedback loops to make sure our products have a high adoption rate. It’s our job to experiment, we strive to innovate by trying out new tech and product ideas. Experiments may fail sometimes, that’s the nature of it, but we learn every time and never shy away from the next experiment.

Key Responsibilities:

You will work on products that are part of the core infrastructure of our API, including:

• CI/CD: Besides automating integration and delivery, this product handles the regulatory obligations that Upvest must meet and has a high impact on the overall efficiency of the engineering department

• Self-service tools: tools for engineers to access platform capabilities in a convenient and compliant manner, e.g. infrastructure provisioning

• Test Tooling: we provide self-service and end-to-end tooling designed for functional testing of Upvest’s customer-facing APIs

• AuthZ/N: Proper authentication and authorization are vital for a financial product, and we provide a flexible solution for teams to use

• API Gateway: we manage and develop the microservice API gateway

• Shared libraries: as a development team, we curate and provide shared libraries that allow us to improve the developer experience for our partner teams

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Design and build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable systems using a microservice architecture powered by Docker, Kubernetes, LinkerD service mesh, and Kong as a gateway

• Take our internal platform initiatives to the next level by helping us to design the right abstraction layers and implementing features used by many engineers

• Work on products backed by a diverse set of technologies, including HTTP and gRPC APIs

• Improving the reliability of our API tools and developing innovative new tools

• Collaborating with engineers on the team, as well as cross-functional stakeholders, to develop solutions for domains which are underserved by existing tooling

• Learn & grow together with your peers in a growing FinTech startup

Job requirements:

• Strong product mindset and interest in building with and for engineers

• Strong communication skills

• You love working on products with high dependability requirements

• Experience with CI/CD automation and observability

• Fluency with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL

• Experience with Go (or willingness to make Go your day-to-day language)

• Experience with Cloud technologies

• Experience with k8s

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with Domain Driven Design

• Data-driven development approach with a sense for feedback loops

• Experience with auth frameworks and familiarity with OAuth

• Experience with GCP

• Experience with the GitHub API

• Deep knowledge of DataDog

• Experience with event-driven architecture, ideally using Kafka

• Experience developing frontends

Why Upvest?

• We're working on solving a hard problem: fixing the European securities financial infrastructure that empowers more people to be able to invest. You have the opportunity to contribute to this change.

• We invest in you. From access to a personal coach, development budget and plenty of opportunities to grow in your role.

• We take hiring seriously with a strong focus on keeping a high bar when interviewing (equally important is that we hire decent people, who are passionate about their craft and helping us achieve our shared mission).

• While we're not quite fully-remote, we are committed to being a flexible employer, as we understand you don't have to be in the office to do your best work.

• We live in a culture of empowerment, trust (that we hire the best people and get out of their way) and openness (there's a greater advantage in sharing information than keeping it to ourselves).

Our values:

• Learn and grow. We aim high to shape our future. We give and request honest feedback, knowing that we develop together. 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! Team over Egos.

• Own the outcome. Whether we win or we lose, we stand together. We are proactive and get the job done. Outcome over process.

• Tell the story. We always start with the why. We share knowledge to empower others. Transparency over Complexity.

Upvest is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees