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

If this sounds like you, we’d love to chat!

Role background
The Platform team’s objectives include creating a robust, secure, resilient, and observable infrastructure for our Product Engineering teams to build products on as well as provide all the needed tooling for them to be productive on the platform. 

The Platform team is also responsible for creating and evolving a foundation for a variety of services with differing requirements. The team enables fast, hassle-free deployments and support, consults on architecture and requirements and strives for the highest level of observability and sane alerting. It provides the environments for orchestrating services and cloud resources. 

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

You will be accountable for guiding teams 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 platform for seamless, fast release cycles.
You will communicate architectural and system design decisions and mentor engineers in how the individual parts of the stack interact with each other.

You will make 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 delivery of a platform which empowers engineers to build the best API following decoupled, event-driven, robust, secure, resilient, and observable principles. 

Responsibilities we'll trust you with:

• Setting team objectives together with your product counterparts and ensuring consistent delivery
• Supporting the team in the development of our infrastructure and guide architectural decisions
• Driving a DevOps mindset and collaboration within the Engineering Department
• Contributing to the platform development in Go with a focus on scalability and stability
• Establishing communication and documentation best practices throughout the entire software development lifecycle (development, deployment, and incident management)
• Supporting and enabling the team in proactive testing, system metrics analysis and finding potential faults

What you'll bring

• Prior experience with distributed systems
  
• Prior experience with Kubernetes, service meshes, API gateways, Vault, and Terraform
  
• Prior experience with Cloud computing (ideally with GCP)
  
• Experience with monitoring using Datadog (or other modern observability tools)
  
• Good SRE thinking, including following KISS and ETC principles
  
• High level of pragmatism.
  
• Good people, communication, leadership and stakeholder management skills
  
• Proactivity in learning new stacks and a high sense of taking ownership
  
• Experience in leading technology teams
  
• Experience with Investment products or Fintech domain in general is a big plus
  
• Experience with the Go ecosystem

It's nice if you have:

• Experience in leading technology teams
• Experience with Investment products or Fintech domain in general is a big plus
• Experience with 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.