Head of Engineering, Platform
Upvest provides regulated, API-first investment infrastructure for fintechs, banks, brokers, and wealth managers across Europe and the UK. Its platform supports brokerage, settlement, custody, fractional investing, portfolios, savings plans, and investment operations.
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About Upvest GmbH
Upvest is a regulated investment infrastructure company offering a cloud-native Investment API for brokerage, settlement, custody, and real-time investment functionality. It also provides middle- and back-office business process outsourcing, regulatory licences, fractional securities, portfolios, savings plans, and operating models for financial institutions launching or scaling investment and pension products.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead the Platform Tribe made up of three teams covering Infrastructure, Reliability, Development Tooling and shared libraries. You will shape the tribe's roadmap with real autonomy, partner with product tribes to turn their needs into platform priorities, and influence the technical direction and stack. Your work will directly improve the reliability, velocity and quality of every product shipped.
Requirements
- Ability to bridge strategic why with engineering solutions and discuss tradeoffs
- Strong interest in Upvest's product domains and client business use cases
- Experience leading and growing larger engineering teams in a technical leadership capacity
- Prior experience in the Fintech domain
- Strong hands-on expertise developing scalable, distributed, asynchronous and resilient platforms
- Security-focused mindset and strong ownership
- Nice to have: API-first and SaaS experience
- Nice to have: microservice-based event-driven distributed applications experience
Responsibilities
- Lead the Platform Tribe of three teams
- Own and shape the tribe's roadmap
- Partner with product tribes and translate their needs into platform priorities
- Influence technical direction and stack
- Improve reliability, velocity and quality of shipped products
Benefits
- €20,000 per year budget for AI tools
- 30 days of annual leave
- Sports benefits
- Confidential professional coaching
- Work remotely abroad up to 183 days a year
- One-month paid sabbatical after every 4 years
- Personal development budget
- Flexible hybrid or remote work across Europe depending on role
- Employee equity program
- Company events and team celebrations
- Employee Resource Groups
