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 Tech Lead to help us build a securities API for financial institutions, the first API of that kind in Europe.
You will build a team to own the highly scalable core services (webhooks, file sharing, etc.) that enable our domain teams to build a world-class securities API. You and your team will also support our public-facing API documentation offering through governance and technical improvements.

• Lead efforts to optimize event delivery mechanisms, including webhook reliability and public streaming solutions, to guarantee timely and dependable data flow
• Support secure data sharing processes with partners and clients, ensuring confidentiality and compliance throughout all interactions
• Define and enforce common API governance practices to ensure consistency, security, and compliance across all public-facing APIs
• Drive discovery and design of valuable cross-cutting core services improving our API platform offering
• Interact with internal and client stakeholders (Product Engineering Teams, Platform Engineers, and Customer Support) 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