We’re looking for fintech enthusiasts to join us in creating the financial infrastructure of tomorrow. We’re building the first European Investment API to enable any financial institution to offer a broad range of investment products in their apps. Our view is backed by Europe's largest tech VCs (Earlybird, Notion Capital, Partech, HV Capital, ABN AMRO Ventures) by renowned fintech entrepreneurs (including Maximilian Tayenthal, founder of N26, and Felix Haas, founder of IDnow) and Bessemer Venture Partners in the USA.

Are you a cloud infrastructure enthusiast experienced in building solid, reliable, reproducible infrastructure for modern microservices? Are you interested in helping  solve complex challenges: fixing the European securities financial infrastructure that empowers more people to be able to invest?

Role background

The Platform Infrastructure team’s objectives include creating a robust, secure, resilient, efficient, and observable infrastructure for our Engineering teams to build products on as well as providing the needed capabilities for them to be productive.

The team is also responsible for creating and evolving a foundation of self-service cloud services. This enables fast, hassle-free, and cost-efficient cloud usage through independent, discrete services and products. It also consults on architecture and requirements and strives for the highest level of observability and sane alerting. It provides the basis for all environments for orchestrating services and cloud resources.

As the Platform Infrastructure Tech Lead, you will work closely with engineering leadership and your product counterparts in planning the priorities and focus of work for the team.

You will be accountable for guiding the team to deliver state-of-the-art, flexible infrastructure that meets bank-grade security standards as well as scoping out additions and improvements to the existing stack, caring about keeping services robust and secure while providing a stable platform.

This will include communicating architectural and system design decisions and to be the primary point of contact for the Platform Infrastructure team from discovery to delivery.

Other responsibilities include making sure our highly-distributed, cloud-native infrastructure meets all our demands and is scalable for the high traffic volume we expect in the near future.

You will set standards to ensure the delivery of a platform that empowers engineers to build the best product following decoupled, event-driven, robust, secure, resilient, and observable principles.

Role Responsibilities:

• Building and growing the Platform Infrastructure team. It is composed of software engineers and site reliability engineers to build infrastructure products that enable other teams.
• Work closely with engineering leadership and product counterparts to set team objectives and ensure consistent delivery
• Coordinating project efforts, leading cross-functional team communication, and moderating meetings and rituals within the team
• Identifying opportunities to lift key metrics; lowering cloud costs, improving on resilience, reliability, and security at large.
• Owning the end-to-end delivery of software services (you build it, you run it), including team ownership of monitoring and incident management of production challenges.
• Driving hiring and growth for the team, developing the engineering talent into new roles, solidifying the feedback culture within the team, managing the performance of team members, and ensuring we engage and retain top engineering talent
• Creating a healthy culture of collaboration and inclusion, leading by example in line with the company values

What you'll bring

• Prior experience with distributed systems
• Knowledge of Cloud computing (ideally GCP), Kubernetes, service meshes, API gateways, and Terraform
• Experience with monitoring using Datadog (or other modern observability tools)
• Strong SRE thinking, including following KISS and ETC principles
• A focus towards action, with the ability to make the tradeoffs between delivering outcomes and making things perfect
• Good people, communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills
• Proactive in learning new stacks and a high sense of taking ownership
• Leadership experience with engineering teams to provide mentorship, guidance, and motivation for the team.
• A desire to build a diverse team that wins together 

It's nice if you have:

• Prior experience in leading technology teams
• Experience with Investment products or the Fintech domain, in general, is a big plus
• Knowledge of the Go ecosystem

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. For lead roles, it would be beneficial to be able to travel to head office regularly for any important workshops and meetings.