Upvest, founded in 2017, enables any financial institution to offer great investment experiences to its customers. Upvest is an investment firm regulated by the German supervision authority (BaFin). The company currently employs 160+ people across Europe with its headquarters based in Berlin, Germany.

The company is backed by the world’s largest venture capital funds and investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, BlackRock, Earlybird, HV Capital, Notion Capital, and ABN Amro Ventures, as well as by renowned fintech entrepreneurs (including Maximilian Tayenthal, founder of N26, and Felix Haas, founder of IDnow).

We’re looking for fintech enthusiasts to join us in creating the financial infrastructure of tomorrow. We’re building the first European Investment API to enable any financial institution offering a wide range of efficient and transparent investment products, such as stocks and ETFs in nominal, portfolio, and fractional form. Our mission and vision is to make investing as easy as spending money.

We’re based in Berlin but would consider hiring remotely in Germany for this role. If you do want to move to Berlin though, we’re happy to support your relocation.

Your mission:

We are seeking an experienced backend engineer with a product mindset to help us build a securities API for financial institutions, the first such API in Europe. Together with the team, you take end-to-end ownership of advancing the corporate actions handling of our Investment API.

Team's mission:

Almost every financial instrument has related corporate actions. By enabling an efficient and compliant handling of corporate actions, the Corporate actions team enables Upvest to offer an even wider range of financial instruments to its customers. Team’s ownership includes the whole lifecycle of a corporate action: from sourcing the data to ensuring that the relevant reports are created.

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Learn what it is like to work in a growing FinTech startup, and gain an understanding of how different corporate actions should be handled

• Learn to scale corporate actions processing by automating more and more of its lifecycle

• Make an impact as we are ramping up the product

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

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

• Build and operate event-driven applications using Kafka

• Work on improving the reliability of our API tools, as well as developing innovative new tools

• Work with cutting-edge technologies (Go is the primary language) without a legacy codebase

Job requirements:

• Prior experience with distributed systems

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

• Fluency with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL (transaction isolation, performance optimization)

• Fluency with event-driven architecture and concurrent algorithms

• Proactiveness in learning new stacks and having a high sense of ownership

It’s nice if you have:

• Experience with Investment products or the Fintech domain, in general

• Experience in event-driven architectures, event streaming, and event sourcing systems

• Experience with Docker, k8s, understanding principles of a service mesh

• Experience with operating services in a decoupled, event-driven system, leveraging modern observability tooling (e.g. monitoring and tracing)

Why Upvest?

• Greenfield projects. We’re building something quite complex and a first in Europe. This means we’re working with cutting-edge technologies and with no legacy code.
• Wellbeing. At Upvest, everyone has access to our in-house coach where you can have regular sessions to support you personally and professionally.
• Development. In keeping with one of our core values, ‘Learn and Grow’, every Upvenger has access to a development budget. In line with one of our other values, ‘Own the Outcome’, how you choose to make the most of it, is up to you.
• Flexibility. We work in a hybrid setup with the team distributed around Germany and Europe. We give you the choice (and budget) to spend your time where you are most comfortable and productive, either at home or the office. You choose.

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