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\nWeโre looking for fintech enthusiasts to join us in creating the financial infrastructure of tomorrow. Weโre 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. \n\nWeโre based in Berlin but would consider hiring remotely for this role. If you do want to move to Berlin though, weโre happy to support your relocation.\nAt Upvest, our vision is to make investing as easy as spending money. By enabling any business to offer investment opportunities, our goal is to empower anyone to invest. Today, we count 100+ talented people from 20 different countries.\n\nRole background\nWe 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). \nResponsibilities we'll trust you with:\n\n* Designing and building fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable systems using Microservice architecture powered by Docker, Kubernetes, LinkerD service mesh, and Kong as a Gateway\n\n* Building event-driven applications using Kafka\n\n* Working on different aspects of our API-product portfolio\n\n* Developing data processing and storing mechanisms\n\n* Working on improving the reliability of our API tools, as well as developing innovative new tools\n\n* Working with an agile methodology with flexible processes\n\n* Working with the cutting edge technologies (Go is the primary language) without legacy codebase\n\n\n\nWhat you'll bring:\n\n* Prior experience with distributed systems\n\n* Experience in Go (or willingness to make Go your day-to-day language)\n\n* Fluency with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL (transaction isolation, performance optimisation)\n\n* Fluency with event-driven architecture and concurrent algorithms\n\n* Being proactive in learning new stacks and having a high sense of ownership\n\n\n\nIt's nice if you have:\n\n* Experience with Investment products or Fintech domain in general is a big plus\n\n* Experience in event-driven architectures, event streaming and event sourcing systems.\n\n* Experience with non-SQL databases\n\n* Experience with Docker, k8s, understanding principles of a service mesh\n\n* Experience with Monitoring and Tracing using Datadog (or other modern observability tools)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhy Upvest?\n\n* We're working on solving a hard problem: fixing the European securities financial infrastructure that empowers more people to be able to invest. You have the opportunity to contribute to this change.\n\n* We invest in you. From access to a personal coach, development budget and plenty of opportunities to grow in your role.\n\n* We take hiring seriously with a strong focus on keeping a high bar when interviewing (equally important is that we hire decent people, who are passionate about their craft and helping us achieve our shared mission).\n\n* While we're not quite fully-remote, we are committed to being a flexible employer, as we understand you don't have to be in the office to do your best work.\n\n* We live a culture of empowerment, trust (that we hire the best people and get out of their way) and openness (there's a greater advantage in sharing information than keeping it to ourselves).\n\n\n\nOur values:\n\n\n* \nLearn and grow. We aim high to shape our future. We give and request honest feedback knowing that we develop together. Progression > Perfection.\n\n* \nTeam first. We make it easy for others. We value our differences and are open to others' opinions. We win and celebrate together! Team > Egos.\n\n* \nOwn the outcome. Whether we win or we lose, we stand together. We are proactive and get the job done. Outcome > Process.\n\n* \nTell the story. We always start with the why. We share knowledge to empower others. Transparency > Complexity.\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to API, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n
$65,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐ We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide
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