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At Upvest, we're on a mission to make investing as easy as spending money. We are building the first European Investment API that empowers businesses to offer seamless investment experiences to their users.

Upvest is a well-funded, fast-growing FinTech with a diverse team of over 250 people from 70+ nationalities working across our hubs in Berlin, Tallinn, and London. Our 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.

How we Upvest in you*:

• Work with experts: Solving complex problems and fixing the European securities financial infrastructure that empowers more people to be able to invest by using cutting-edge technologies.

• Professional development: Access an annual budget of €1,500 for personal and professional training to master your craft.

• Wellbeing: Access confidential professional coaching for your growth and recharge with 30 days of annual leave. We offer the flexibility to work from a different location for up to 183 days a year.

• Compensation and equity: We believe that all Upvengers contribute to our success and deserve a competitive, above-market salary and a participation in our employee equity program.

• Team celebrations: Participate in company-wide events, such as UpFest, dinners, offsites and our Holiday party, to connect with colleagues and celebrate our achievements.

Your Impact:

• We are a dedicated security team of 9 working to ensure we strictly follow the principles of secure-by-design, zero trust, and the principle of least privilege. We have the luxury of building a security function in a greenfield environment, which means we operate at the cutting edge with modern best practices. We are always seeking out and open to new and novel ways to improve the security posture of our company.

• Security isn’t just about our team though, at Upvest it’s part of the culture. The team itself is one of the oldest within (our young) company, which should show you how it’s always been a central tenet of how Upvest defines itself. Within the security team you will have a large view of the whole organisation and work closely with every department.

What you’ll do:

• Act as a security subject matter expert for the entire company, operating across multiple disciplines from application and cloud security to GRC. While your work will be broad, your primary focus will be on partnering with our Product Engineering teams to embed a "secure by default" mindset

• Work with our team and Product and Engineering to perform detailed security architecture reviews of new functionality (facilitating threat modeling is a plus)

• Field security questions and requests with confidence and an aim to mentor and educate

• Scale the security team by finding areas where security tasks can be automated (and improved)

• Be comfortable working with the cloud (specifically Google Cloud is a plus) and how to tackle its security challenges

• Ensure that across the product and cloud we have the technical measures in place to continue meeting our own standards, obligations, regulations and certifications (ISO27001, ISAE3402 Type 2, DORA, etc)

• Drive high-impact initiatives and be a present security advocate

What you bring:

• A real passion for information security, staying abreast of developments in the field, and a desire for knowledge sharing and educating others

• Experience working in the field of Cyber Security and a degree in a related field

• A strong foundation in cybersecurity principles and an understanding of frameworks and methodologies, including MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, incident response frameworks (NIST, SANS), and threat hunting techniques

• Experience with being on the security side of an SSDLC; i.e. improving it, socialising it, and implementing it

• Experience with threat modeling, or security reviews

• Excellent communication skills and empathy, security is a complex topic which you have to be able to explain to audiences of various levels of previous exposure or learning

Your plus would be:

• Relevant cloud experience (familiarity with Google Cloud)

• Passion for DevSecOps

• Experience with Go

• Comfortable working with EDR and SIEM solutions

• Ideally you will be based in Berlin. If you're currently located elsewhere but would like to move, we’re happy to support your relocation

Our values:

• Make it easy for others. Team over Egos.

• Own the outcome. Progress over Perfection.

• Rise to the challenge. Growth over Comfort.

• Tell the story. Clarity over Ambiguity.

Our Commitment to Belonging:

At Upvest we’re dedicated to building an inclusive environment where every Upvenger feels a true sense of belonging and is empowered to do their best work. We are a proud equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability. Your unique path is what we value.

* These benefits apply if you will be hired in Germany, Estonia or the UK. If you live elsewhere within Europe, some of the benefits might be slightly different.