Head of Engineering, Platform (f/m/d)

Berlin, Remote. Posted 8 days ago

The role

You will lead the Platform Tribe, which comprises three teams responsible for Infrastructure, Reliability, and Development Tooling. You will own the tribe's roadmap and partner with product tribes to translate needs into platform priorities.

What you will do

Own and shape the tribe's roadmap with real autonomy
Partner closely with product tribes to understand their needs
Translate product needs into platform priorities
Work with modern tools and technologies
Influence technical direction and stack
Influence the reliability, velocity, and quality of every product shipped

Required qualifications

Ability to bridge strategic why with engineering solutions
Strong product engineering mindset
Strong interest in Upvest's product domains
Proactive desire to understand business use cases
Experience in leading and growing larger engineering teams in a technical leadership capacity
Prior experience within the Fintech domain
Strong technical expertise and hands-on experience in developing highly scalable, distributed, asynchronous, and resilient platforms
Strong work ethic and principles such as pragmatism
A security-focused mindset
A high sense of taking ownership

Nice to have

Experience with API-first and SaaS applications
Experience building and running microservice-based event driven distributed applications

Benefits

€20,000 per year for AI tools
30 days of annual leave
Sports benefits
Access to confidential professional coaching
Flexibility to work remotely abroad for up to 183 days a year
One-month fully paid sabbatical after every 4 years
Personal development budget
Competitive, above-market salary
Participation in employee equity program
Company-wide events such as UpFest, dinners, offsites and Holiday party

About the company

Upvest empowers businesses to offer a wide range of investment products through an easy to integrate Investment API. Founded in 2017, the company is backed by €280M in total funding.