Senior Software Engineer
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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About the Role
Join Upvest's product engineering team to improve the reliability of its Investment API and design, build, and own fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable distributed systems using a microservice architecture.
Requirements
- Experience with investment products or the fintech domain.
- Experience with event-driven architectures, event streaming, and event sourcing systems.
- Experience operating services in decoupled, event-driven systems using observability tools such as monitoring and tracing.
Responsibilities
- Make an impact in a product team with broad ownership.
- Work with Go as the primary language.
- Improve the reliability of the Investment API.
- Deliver frequently using an agile methodology with two-week retrospectives and demos.
- Design, build, and own event-driven, fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable distributed systems.
- Work with Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, and PostgreSQL in a microservice architecture.
Benefits
- €20,000 annual budget for AI tools
- 30 days of annual leave
- Sports benefits
- Confidential professional coaching
- Remote work abroad for up to 183 days per year
- One-month fully paid sabbatical after every four years
- Personal development budget
- Flexible hybrid or remote work environment
- Employee equity participation
- Company-wide events
- Employee Resource Groups