Head of Engineering, Platform (f/m/d)
Core
Lead the Platform Tribe to build the foundational infrastructure, reliability, and tooling for Upvest's Investment API, enabling fintechs and financial institutions to integrate investment products.
Role type
Senior IC/Lead Platform Engineering Manager
Builds
Scalable, distributed, asynchronous, and resilient platform infrastructure, shared libraries, and development tooling for the Investment API
Domain
Fintech / Capital Markets / Investment API
Required skills
Technical leadership, distributed systems architecture, asynchronous/resilient platform design, API-first design, microservices, event-driven architecture, product engineering mindset, security-focused mindset
Preferred skills
SaaS applications, building and running microservice-based event driven distributed applications
Responsibilities
Own and shape the tribe's roadmap with autonomy, partner with product tribes to translate needs into platform priorities, influence technical direction and stack, drive reliability and velocity of shipped products
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC/Lead
