Position: (Senior) Backend Engineer(f/m/d)
Company: Upvest
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Role background

We are seeking a full-time backend engineer to build a securities API for financial institutions, the first such API in Europe. Your goal is to take ownership of designing, developing and maintaining our microservice architecture (written in Go).

 

Responsibilities we'll trust you with:

Designing and building fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable systems using Microservice architecture powered by Docker, Kubernetes, LinkerD service mesh, and Kong as a Gateway
Building event-driven applications using Kafka
Working on different aspects of our API-product portfolio
Developing data processing and storing mechanisms
Working on improving the reliability of our API tools, as well as developing innovative new tools
Working with an agile methodology with flexible processes
Working with the cutting edge technologies (Go is the primary language) without legacy codebase
What you'll bring:

Prior experience with distributed systems
Experience in Go (or willingness to make Go your day-to-day language)
Fluency with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL (transaction isolation, performance optimization)
Fluency with event-driven architecture and concurrent algorithms
Being proactive in learning new stacks and having a high sense of ownership


It's nice if you have:

Experience with Investment products or Fintech domain in general is a big plus
Experience in event-driven architectures, event streaming and event sourcing systems.
Experience with non-SQL databases
Experience with Docker, k8s, understanding principles of a service mesh
Experience with Monitoring and Tracing using Datadog (or other modern observability tools)
 

How we Upvest in you?

Greenfield projects. We’re building something quite complex and a first in Europe. This means we’re working with cutting-edge technologies and with no legacy code.
Wellbeing. At Upvest, everyone has access to our in-house coach where you can have regular sessions to support you personally and professionally.
Development. In keeping with one of our core values, ‘Learn and Grow’, every Upvenger has access to a development budget. In line with one of our other values, ‘Own the Outcome’, how you choose to make the most of it, is up to you.
Flexibility. We work in a hybrid setup with the team distributed around Germany and Europe. We give you the choice (and budget) to spend your time where you are most comfortable and productive, either at home or the office. You choose.
 

Location

We’re based in Berlin but would consider hiring remotely for this role. If you do want to move to Berlin though, we’re happy to support your relocation.

 

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! The 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.