AI Platform Engineer (f/m/d)

Upvest; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 110.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Upvest in Berlin is seeking an exceptional AI Platform Engineer to join our engineering team as a senior individual contributor in a new Applied AI function. You will design, build and operate the shared infrastructure that lets every team leverage AI safely — and at scale.

You will ensure reliability, security and observability, collaborating with Security, Compliance and other business units to align AI workflows with policy.

Aufgaben

• Design, build and operate infrastructure that connects AI models to internal tools and data sources.
• Harden and monitor AI platform for reliability, observability and evals in production.

Jobbeschreibung

At Upvest, we are on a mission to make investing as easy as spending money. Upvest 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 financial institutions can save resources and fully focus on their core business.

We are proud to partner with Europe’s leading Fintechs and financial institutions such as DKB, Revolut, N26 and Raisin. Founded in 2017 by Martin Kassing, Upvest now brings together over 270 talented professionals from more than 70 nationalities. Upvest is backed by €280M in total funding from world-class investors, including BlackRock, Tencent, Sapphire Ventures, and Bessemer Venture Partners, Earlybird, Notion Capital, and Motive. Our latest €105M funding round in March 2026 - led by Sapphire and Tencent - serves as a massive catalyst for our growth, allowing us to offer premier investment experience.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As we enter our next stage of growth, we are looking for an exceptional AI Platform Engineer to join our Engineering team, reporting directly to Yurii Opryshko and working closely together with our SVP Engineering Roberto Fajardo. This is a senior individual contributor role, and one of the first two hires into a new Applied AI function.

AI is reshaping how financial infrastructure companies operate — and at Upvest, we're moving fast. Our engineers have taken to it quickly. The rest of the company hasn't had the same run, and that's the gap this role exists to close.

Product engineering stays focused on the core product. Your job is the layer underneath everything else: the shared infrastructure, tooling and standards that let every team at Upvest build with AI safely — and, crucially, the work that makes those teams able to do it without you.

You will be one of two people in this function. Your counterpart comes from the business side and will spend their time in Operations, Growth, Compliance and Finance finding the problems worth solving. You'll be the one who makes solving them possible, repeatable, and safe.

BUILD AND RUN THE AI PLATFORM

You will design, build and operate the infrastructure that connects Claude and other LLMs to Upvest's internal systems — MCP servers, integrations to internal tools, APIs and data sources — and the hosted infrastructure behind the automation stack that other teams build on.

You don't build in isolation. You plug into what our platform and engineering teams already run rather than standing up a parallel stack, and you're as willing to adopt and extend something that exists as you are to build it yourself.

As adoption grows, you harden what you've built. Reliability, observability and evals for AI systems in production are your responsibility, not an afterthought.

MAKE OTHER TEAMS SELF-SUFFICIENT

This is half the job, not a footnote.

You will work directly with people in Operations, Compliance, Growth and Finance to help them build their own workflows — sitting with them, understanding the actual process, and shipping the first version together. Then you make the second one something they can do without you: templates, patterns, guardrails, and enough teaching that the knowledge stays with the team rather than with you.

The measure of success is not how many automations you've built. It's how many happen without you. If ten workflows are live and all ten depend on you personally, the platform hasn't worked.

You seek out the AI champions already experimenting across the company and turn what they're doing into something secure, compliant and durable — without taking it away from them.

WORK ALONGSIDE SECURITY, NOT AROUND THEM

Upvest is a BaFin and FCA regulated firm. You understand the constraints that come with that and don't need convincing they're real.

Security owns the controls. You are the main technical point of contact between them and everything the AI platform touches — translating how AI systems reach data and tools into terms Security can assess, and building so that access boundaries, audit trails and data handling are there by design rather than retrofitted.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Platform mindset, applied pragmatically: You've built infrastructure others built on top of. You also know when not to. You'd rather ship a narrow slice that creates value this week and generalise it once you've seen the same problem three times than design the general case before you understand it.

• You make other people capable: You've handed something over and had it stick. You can point to work where the team you built for ended up able to carry it themselves, and you can say what made that work.

• AI native: Hands-on experience shipping AI agents and end-to-end automations that ran in production and that other people depended on — not prototypes. You move fast and stay current. …