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 TechLead for a Fullstack team to help us build a securities API for financial institutions, the first such API in Europe.
You take on a dual leadership/hands-on role for the brand new External Service Panel team. The External Service Panel is a brand new product that will amend our Investment API offering by providing self-service customer support to scale with our enterprise expansion and enable further sales growth in the enterprise area.

• Build and lead a high-performing product engineering team.
• Use your experience to architect and design a completely new fullstack product based on our Investment API that will enable Upvest to massively expand its growth.
• Design and build easy-to-use, low friction tools focused on self-service to enable efficient day-to-day operations for our clients.
• Interact with internal and client stakeholders (Operations, Customer Support and other Product Engineering teams) to ensure great product and build quality.
• Deliver quality fast and often. We embrace an agile methodology with a retrospective and demo at the end of the two-week cycle.