Tech Lead - External Service Panel (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 and currently employs more than 200 people across Europe. 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 200+ people across Europe with our headquarters based in Berlin, Germany, and hubs in Tallinn, Estonia, and London, UK. We would consider hiring remotely for this role. If you do want to move to one of our hubs, we’re happy to support your relocation.

Your mission:

We are seeking a full-time TechLead for a Fullstack team to help us build a securities API for financial institutions, the first such API in Europe. 

You take on a dual leadership/hands-on role for the brand new External Service Panel team. The External Service Panel is a brand new product that will amend our Investment API offering by providing self-service customer support to scale with our enterprise expansion and enable further sales growth in the enterprise area.

As a TechLead, you build and lead the team and take significant ownership in designing, building, and maintaining the External Service Panel, together with your team.

The team's mission:

The External Service Panel team will design, build and operate the new product offering, providing a great operator experience in a regulated cloud environment, with security and auditability as first-class citizens. 

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Build and lead a high-performing product engineering team.

• Use your experience to architect and design a completely new fullstack product based on our Investment API that will enable Upvest to massively expand its growth.

• Design and build easy-to-use, low friction tools focused on self-service to enable efficient day-to-day operations for our clients.

• Interact with internal and client stakeholders (Operations, Customer Support and other Product Engineering teams) to ensure great product and build quality.

• Deliver quality fast and often. We embrace an agile methodology with a retrospective and demo at the end of the two-week cycle.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience in leading and growing engineering teams in a technical leadership position

• Previous experience building successful client-facing applications

• Understanding of UX principles and how and when to apply them

• Experience with architecting and building stateful cloud-native fullstack web apps with React that leverage a public REST API

• The ability to bridge the why with the engineering side how, discuss tradeoffs and proactively suggest ideas in a way that’s accessible to a non-technical audience

• Proficiency with TypeScript and Node.js ecosystems

• Go proficiency (for the backend parts) or a strong willingness to learn

• A focus on code quality, extensibility, regression and E2E testing, security-focused mindset

• Prior experience with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL

It’s nice if you have:

• Experience working in the Fintech domain

• Experience building web apps in the B2B or backend operations space 

• Experience with React-based web application frameworks, e.g. Next.js

• Experience with testing framework, e.g. Cypress, Puppeteer, Playwright, Datadog Synthetics

• Experience or interest in topics such as internationalisation and accessibility

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. You get a learning development budget and plenty of opportunities to grow in your role.

We have a strong engineering culture encouraging knowledge sharing. Learn from our team members who present internally on various software engineering topics as well as internationally at various developer conferences.

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 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.