Head of Engineering, Platform
HV Capital is a European venture capital firm that provides capital and support to bold founders across multiple stages and industries. With 26 years of experience, they have backed companies across AI & Enterprise Software, Deep Tech, Resilience & Defence, FinTech, and Consumer sectors.
About HV Capital
HV Capital is a venture capital firm with 26 years of experience investing in European innovation across multiple industries and business cycles. The firm backs founders from early stage through growth, spanning multiple fund generations, with a portfolio that includes companies in AI & Enterprise Software, Deep Tech, Resilience & Defence, FinTech, and Consumer sectors. Notable portfolio companies include NEURA Robotics, Zalando, n8n, Isar Aerospace, Quantum Systems, ARX, and Scalable Capital, with several portfolio companies having reached IPO. HV Capital has approximately €2.89 billion in assets under management and works with founders across multiple disciplines and team perspectives.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead the Platform Tribe, which comprises three teams responsible for critical domains such as Infrastructure, SRE, Development Tooling and shared libraries, all of which are essential for Upvest's Investment API. You'll own and shape the tribe's roadmap with real autonomy over what is built and why, partner closely with product tribes to translate their needs into platform priorities, work with modern tools and technologies with real influence over the technical direction and stack, and directly influence the reliability, velocity, and quality of every product shipped.
Requirements
- Ability to bridge strategic "why" with engineering solutions, actively discussing tradeoffs and proactively suggesting ideas, demonstrating a strong product engineering mindset
- Strong interest in Upvest's product domains and a proactive desire to understand the business use cases Upvest enables for clients
- Experience in leading and growing larger engineering teams in a technical leadership capacity
- Prior experience within the Fintech domain
- Strong technical expertise and hands-on experience in developing highly scalable, distributed, asynchronous, and resilient platforms
- Strong work ethic and principles such as pragmatism
- A security-focused mindset and a high sense of taking ownership
- Excitement to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic startup environment
- Experience with API-first and SaaS applications
- Experience building and running microservice-based event driven distributed applications
Responsibilities
- Own and shape the tribe's roadmap with real autonomy over what we build and why
- Partner closely with product tribes to understand their needs and translate them into platform priorities
- Work with modern tools and technologies, with real influence over our technical direction and stack
- Directly influence the reliability, velocity, and quality of every product we ship
Benefits
- €20,000 per year to spend on AI tools
- 30 days of annual leave
- Sports benefits
- Confidential professional coaching
- Flexibility to work remotely abroad for up to 183 days a year
- One-month fully paid sabbatical after every 4 years of working at Upvest (UpRest)
- Personal development budget
- Flexible work environment across hubs in Berlin, London or Tallinn, hybrid or remote
- Equity participation in employee equity program
- Company-wide events such as UpFest, dinners, offsites and Holiday party
- Employee Resource Groups