Senior Software Engineer
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.
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About the Role
You'll join a true product team with large ownership scope, working with cutting-edge technologies where Go is the primary language — no legacy codebase to worry about. You'll focus on improving the reliability of the API and deliver fast and often, embracing an agile methodology with a retrospective and demo at the end of each two-week cycle. You'll design, build and own event-driven, fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable distributed systems using a microservice architecture powered by Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka and PostgreSQL.
Requirements
- Experience with investment products or the fintech domain
- Experience in event-driven architectures, event streaming, and event sourcing systems
- Experience operating services in a decoupled, event-driven system, leveraging modern observability tooling such as monitoring and tracing
Responsibilities
- Make an impact in a product team with a large ownership scope
- Work with Go as the primary language
- Improve the reliability of the API
- Deliver fast and often using an agile methodology with two-week cycles
- Design, build and own event-driven, fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable distributed systems
- Work with a microservice architecture powered by Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka and PostgreSQL
Benefits
- €20,000 per year budget 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
- Personal development budget
- Flexible work environment across Berlin, London or Tallinn hubs, hybrid or remote
- Equity participation in employee equity program
- Company-wide events such as UpFest, dinners, offsites and Holiday party
- Employee Resource Groups