Senior Software Engineer (f/m/d)

At Upvest, we are on a mission to make investing as easy as spending money. Upvest empowers businesses to offer a wide range of investment products and the best experience in the field of capital market investment and retirement planning. ABOUT THE ROLE: Our hubs are in Berlin, London and Tallinn, but we are open to hire remotely from Europe and United Kingdom.

Responsibilities

Make an impact in a true product team with a large ownership scope; Work with cutting-edge technologies (Go is the primary language; it’s okay if you’re willing to switch from another language) without a legacy codebase; Work on improving the reliability of our API; Deliver fast and often; embrace an agile methodology with a retrospective and demo at the end of the two-week cycle; Design, build and own event-driven, fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable distributed systems using a Microservice architecture powered by Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka and PostgreSQL

Requirements

Willingness to use Go as primary language (or switch from another language); Excited about fintech and building the financial infrastructure of tomorrow; Work with the customer in mind; True team player and energized in diverse teams; Hungry to learn and eager to grow quickly

Nice to have

Experience with Investment products or the Fintech domain; Experience in event-driven architectures, event streaming, and event sourcing systems; Experience with operating services in a decoupled, event-driven system, leveraging modern observability tooling (e.g. monitoring and tracing)

Benefits

Best-in-class AI tools: €20,000 per year to spend on AI tools; Impact-driven work; 30 days of annual leave; sports benefits; confidential professional coaching; flexibility to work remotely abroad for up to 183 days a year; UpRest one-month fully paid sabbatical after every 4 years; personal development budget; flexible work environment; competitive above-market salary and employee equity program; team celebrations such as UpFest, dinners, offsites and holiday party; inclusive culture with Employee Resource Groups