Senior Fullstack Engineer

Upvest is on a mission to make investing as easy as spending money. The company empowers businesses to offer a wide range of investment products and the best experience in the field of capital market investment and retirement planning. Upvest's Investment API is easy to integrate so that fintechs and enterprises alike can save resources and fully focus on their core business.‍

Upvest is one of the few fintechs in Europe that can provide its B2B clients with the full range of investment opportunities in the areas of principal broking business, proprietary trading, and safe custody business for traditional securities. The company was founded in 2017 by Martin Kassing and currently employs more than 200 people across Europe. Its latest €100m fundraising round (Series C) was led by Hedosophia and Sapphire Venture, with continued support from existing investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, BlackRock, Earlybird, HV Capital, Motive Ventures, and Notion Capital.

We currently employ 200+ people across Europe with our headquarters based in Berlin, Germany, and hubs in Tallinn, Estonia, and London, UK. We would consider hiring remotely for this role. If you do want to move to one of our hubs, we're happy to support your relocation.

Your Mission
We are seeking a full-time (senior) full-stack engineer to help us build a securities API for financial institutions, the first such API in Europe. Your goal is to take ownership of designing, developing, and maintaining internal tooling we use to enable our investment banking operations. This includes building the back-office and admin web dashboards and tools, developer tooling, and more.
This full stack role leans heavily towards the frontend.
The team's mission
The Tooling Apps team designs and builds all the internal tools for our Operations and Customer Support colleagues to be able to operate all the bank processes. These processes are a core part of Upvest's value proposition and crucial to get right to enable modern, compliant and mostly automated banking operations.

The team plans, designs, and implements all tools together with stakeholders from other departments. We use the most appropriate tool for each job: From web applications, internal libraries, SDKs and chatbots, all the way to new ideas we haven't even considered yet. The team owns the vision for helping us automate as many of these processes as we can.

This Role Will Give You The Opportunity To

• Own our internal tooling as part of the product engineering team.
• Design and build easy-to-use, low friction tooling to enable efficient day-to-day operations.
• Interact with stakeholders (Operations, Customer Support and other Product Engineering teams) to learn more about the product and ensure delivery quality.
• Explore ways to help other Product Engineering teams automate aspects of day-to-day development activities. This could include building web applications, SlackOps, etc.
• Deliver quality fast and often. We embrace an agile methodology with a retrospective and demo at the end of the two-week cycle.

What You'll Bring

• The ability to bridge the why with the engineering side, discuss tradeoffs and proactively suggest ideas, aka a strong product engineering mindset.
• Experience with modern web frameworks (React).
• Proficiency with TypeScript and ecosystems.
• Go proficiency (for the backend parts) or a strong willingness to learn.
• Strong work ethic and principles such as pragmatism.
• A focus on code quality, extensibility, regression and E2E testing.
• Practical experience with Docker and CI/CD.
• Prior experience with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL.

It's Nice If You Have

• Experience working in the Fintech domain
• Experience with Monitoring and Tracing using Datadog
• Experience with testing framework, e.g Cypress, Puppeteer, Playwright, Datadog Synthetics.

Why Upvest?
We're working on solving a hard problem: fixing the European securities financial infrastructure that empowers more people to be able to invest. You have the opportunity to contribute to this change.

We invest in you. You get a learning development budget and plenty of opportunities to grow in your role.

We have a strong engineering culture encouraging knowledge sharing. Learn from our team members who present internally on various software engineering topics as well as internationally at various developer conferences.

We take hiring seriously with a strong focus on keeping a high bar when interviewing (equally important is that we hire decent people, who are passionate about their craft and helping us achieve our shared mission).

While we're not quite fully-remote, we are committed to being a flexible employer, as we understand you don't have to be in the office to do your best work.

We live a culture of empowerment, trust (that we hire the best people and get out of their way) and openness (there's a greater advantage in sharing information than keeping it to ourselves).

Our Values

• Learn and grow. We aim high to shape our future. We give and request honest feedback knowing that we develop together. Progression over Perfection.
• Team first. We make it easy for others. We value our differences and are open to others' opinions. We win and celebrate together Team over Egos.
• Own the outcome. Whether we win or we lose, we stand together. We are proactive and get the job done. Outcome over Process.
• Tell the story. We always start with the why. We share knowledge to empower others. Transparency over Complexity.

Upvest is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.