Tech Lead - Engineering Enablement (f/m/d)

Upvest is on a mission to make investing as easy as spending money. The company empowers businesses to offer a wide range of investment products and the best experience in the field of capital market investment and retirement planning. Upvest’s Investment API is easy to integrate so that fintechs and enterprises alike can save resources and fully focus on their core business.‍

Upvest is one of the few fintechs in Europe that can provide its B2B clients with the full range of investment opportunities in the areas of principal broking business, proprietary trading, and safe custody business for traditional securities. The company was founded in 2017 by Martin Kassing and currently employs more than 200 people across Europe. Its latest €100m fundraising round (Series C) was led by Hedosophia and Sapphire Venture, with continued support from existing investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, BlackRock, Earlybird, HV Capital, Motive Ventures, and Notion Capital.

We currently employ 200+ people across Europe with our headquarters based in Berlin, Germany, and hubs in Tallinn, Estonia, and London, UK. We would consider hiring remotely for this role. If you do want to move to one of our hubs, we’re happy to support your relocation.

Your mission

As Tech Lead for Engineering Enablement (f/m/d) at Upvest, you will guide a team dedicated to maximizing engineering productivity, quality, and satisfaction. Your mission is to create an exceptional developer experience that enables our engineering teams to build, test, and deploy high-quality software, efficiently, whilst meeting compliance and security requirements with ease. Through innovative tooling, automation, and streamlined workflows, you'll create paved roads for our engineers to move fast and create value for our investment products.

The role will give you the opportunity to

• Build and nurture the Engineering Enablement team, focused on enhancing engineering productivity and satisfaction

• Contribute to the strategic roadmap, in collaboration with technical product management, for developer tooling, automation, and workflow improvements

• Implement metrics to measure engineering productivity, quality, and compliance, using data to guide improvements

• Implement streamlined CI/CD pipelines and processes that balance speed of delivery with security and quality

• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to integrate guardrails that protect without impeding velocity

• Cultivate engineering excellence through shared best practices, standards, and documentation

• Partner with engineering leaders to identify and address friction points and productivity bottlenecks

• Design and implement "paved road" experiences that provide well-documented workflows for common engineering tasks, reducing cognitive load while maintaining flexibility for innovation and expansion

• Enable effective onboarding experiences for new engineers

What you'll bring

• Having worked as a software engineer yourself, you understand developer needs and challenges

• Experience in guiding teams focused on developer productivity, platform engineering, and developer experience

• A fearless and proactive approach to software development. Refactoring your  projects and working with other teams’ codebases is a natural part of your daily work

• Knowledge of modern CI/CD practices (GitHub Actions, GitOps), testing frameworks, and developer tooling ecosystems

• Strong expertise in Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SSDLC) practices and implementation

• Familiarity with developer portals, internal platforms, and self-service tooling

• Experience implementing developer-centric security and compliance controls within development processes (static analysis, dependency scanning, policy enforcement)

• Effective communication skills for connecting technical concepts with business value

• Data-informed approach to measuring and improving engineering efficiency

• Demonstrated success in attracting, developing, and retaining diverse engineering talent

It is a plus if you have

• Experience with AI-assisted development workflows and LLM integration into tool chains

• Good understanding of Kubernetes, mesh networking and service discovery

• Knowledge of authentication systems and API gateways such as Kong

Why Upvest?

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.

We invest in you. You get a learning development budget and plenty of opportunities to grow in your role.

We have a strong engineering culture encouraging knowledge sharing. Learn from our team members who present internally on various software engineering topics as well as internationally at various developer conferences.

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).

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.

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).

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! 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.

Upvest is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.