Job Overview
Location
Berlin
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Engineering
Date Posted
July 10, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Lead the Platform Tribe, comprising three teams responsible for Infrastructure, SRE, Development Tooling, and shared libraries, to give every engineer at Upvest the fastest, safest path from idea to production.
- • 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.
- • 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.
🎯 Requirements
- • Ability to bridge strategic 'why' with engineering solutions.
- • Strong interest in Upvest's product domains.
- • Experience in leading and growing larger engineering teams.
- • Prior experience within the Fintech domain.
- • Strong technical expertise in developing highly scalable, distributed, asynchronous, and resilient platforms.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Best-in-class AI tools: Every Upvenger has €20,000 per year to spend on the best AI tools available.
- • Impact-driven work: We’re building the infrastructure that will power the future of investing in Europe.
- • Wellbeing: Recharge with 30 days of annual leave and maintain a healthy lifestyle with sports benefits.
- • Development: Growth is in our DNA. Each Upvenger has access to a personal development budget and the freedom to decide how to use it.
- • Flexible work environment: Work from any of our hubs in Berlin, London or Tallinn hybrid or remotely across Europe, depending on the role.
- • Compensation and equity: We believe that all Upvengers contribute to our success and deserve a competitive, above-market salary and a participation in our employee equity program.
- • Team celebrations: Participate in company-wide events, such as UpFest, dinners, offsites and our Holiday party, to connect with colleagues and celebrate our achievements.
- • Inclusion: We’re committed to a culture where everyone belongs and thrives. Our Employee Resources Groups foster inclusion and connection.
Skills & Technologies
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About Upvest GmbH
Upvest GmbH provides a set of APIs that enable fintechs, banks and wealth managers to embed investment capabilities into their applications. The Berlin-based company offers infrastructure for fractional shares, ETFs, crypto and other assets, handling trading, custody, settlement and regulatory compliance. Customers can launch brokerage or robo-advisor products without building their own broker-dealer, reducing time-to-market and operational overhead. Upvest holds BaFin licences for proprietary trading, investment brokerage and crypto custody, serving clients across Europe.
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