Head of Engineering, Platform (f/m/d)

We are looking for a full-time Head of Engineering to help us build the leading Investment Infrastructure for financial institutions, the first of its kind in Europe. You will lead the Platform Tribe, which comprises three teams. These teams are responsible for critical domains such as Infrastructure, SRE, Development Tooling and shared libraries, all of which are essential for Upvest's Investment API. The tribe’s mission: The Platform Tribe exists to give every engineer at Upvest the fastest, safest path from idea to production. We own the foundations that make great engineering possible: the infrastructure teams build on, the tools they build with, the shared libraries that let them move fast without reinventing the wheel, and the observability and reliability practices that keep our systems trustworthy at scale.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

Ability to 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

Nice to have

Experience with API-first and SaaS applications; Experience building and running microservice-based event driven distributed applications

Benefits

Best-in-class AI tools: €20,000 per year; Impact-driven work; Wellbeing: 30 days annual leave, sports benefits, confidential professional coaching, remote abroad up to 183 days/year, UpRest one-month paid sabbatical after 4 years; Development: personal development budget; Flexible work environment: hybrid or remote across Europe; Compensation and equity: competitive above-market salary and employee equity program; Team celebrations: company-wide events; Inclusion: Employee Resource Groups