Trainee Software Engineer

Program Overview

• You’ll take on a 12-month salaried position that offers a “paved road” into a software engineering career with one of Europe’s fastest growing and most respected FinTechs.
• Through a structured education program, you’ll make the transition from academic life to industrial software engineering in a way that’s both easy and effective.
• You’ll be placed into a working Product Engineering tribe in Berlin, London or Tallinn, where you’ll develop real-world engineering skills in direct partnership with senior members of Upvest’s world-class engineering team.
• Throughout the program, you’ll build valuable experience developing cloud-native microservices in Go and working with technologies like Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL, OpenAPI, and TypeScript.
• You’ll learn to deliver high-quality outcomes effectively within a Secure Software Development Life-Cycle, while utilising cutting-edge software engineering tools including AI tools to master efficient engineering.
• You’ll also apply “Product Thinking” to navigate the Investment domain.
• Upon successful completion of the program, top performers will receive a full-time offer to continue their career with Upvest.
• For students on an Industrial Placement Year, this offer can be deferred until after graduation.

Benefits

• Flexibility - We work in a hybrid set-up, with the team spread around Germany and other parts of Europe. We give you the choice and budget to work where you’re most comfortable and productive, either at home or in the office. You choose.
• Development - In keeping with one of our values, ‘Learn and grow’, every Upvenger has access to a development budget. And in line with one of our other values, ‘Own the outcome’, how you make the most of it is up to you.
• Wellbeing - Everyone here has access to our in-house coach. You can have regular sessions to support you personally and professionally. We also believe it’s important to have time out to rest and recover, which is why we offer 30 days’ holiday.
• Greenfield projects - We’re building something quite complex. A first in Europe. This means you get to work with cutting-edge technologies, with no legacy code.