Senior Software Engineer
Upvest provides regulated, API-first investment infrastructure for fintechs, banks, brokers, and wealth managers across Europe and the UK.
Funding history
About Upvest
Upvest is a Berlin-based, regulated investment-infrastructure company serving financial institutions that want to launch and scale brokerage, wealth, and pension products. Its cloud-native Investment API provides brokerage, settlement, custody, and real-time investment functionality, while its operations offering automates middle- and back-office processes. Upvest supports flexible operating models under its own or clients’ licences and offers fractional securities, portfolios, and savings plans across European and UK markets.
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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'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