Upvest - Backend Engineer - Berlin - FT

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At Upvest, we are building the financial infrastructure of tomorrow. Our vision is to create a world in which any asset can be owned and traded digitally by anyone, anywhere. Our bold long-term view is backed by Europe's largest tech VCs Notion Capital, Partech and Holtzbrinck Ventures. Today, we count 22 talented people from 10 different countries and we want to keep expanding our international Upvengers team.

At least +2 years of experience and passion about Golang and distributed systems
Fluency with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL, transaction isolation, performance optimization
Fluency with event driven architecture and concurrent algorithms
Be proactive in learning new stacks and have a high sense of taking ownership
Excited to work in a fast-paced and dynamic startup environment

Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable systems. Using Microservice architecture powered by Docker, Kubernetes, Kuma service mesh and Kong as a Gateway.
Build event driven applications using NATS
Work on different aspects of our API-product portfolio as part of the development team
Develop data processing and storing mechanisms
Work on improving the reliability of our API tools, as well as developing innovative tools
Work with an agile methodology: in the end of the 2-weeks sprint cycle we have a demo with retrospective to make our software delivering faster

Experience with Docker, k8s, understanding principles of a service mesh
Experience with Monitoring and Tracing using opentracing/opencensus/opentelemetry/elastic APM
Understanding of encryption algorithms and their application
Experience working in Fintech domain

Exciting opportunity to build the future of digital securities!
A young, dynamic and fast-growing startup with flat hierarchies and open communication
As we strongly believe in personal development, we offer private coaching sessions and educational budget
A modern office in the heart of Berlin Mitte, a brand-new Mac, flexible working hours, option of working from home, regular off-site events, free drinks/snacks and many more...
We measure our performance with the help of OKRs and love to celebrate our successes
A relocation package with visa support