Security Engineering Lead (m/f/d)

Upvest
Full-timeBerlin, Germany
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SALARY
Not listed
LOCATION
Berlin, Germany
LEVEL
Lead
CONTRACT
Full-time

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:

Upvest is at the inflection point where security needs to scale and remain a foundational discipline of the company. We're hiring a Security Engineering Lead to step into our lean and efficient Security team, set its multi-quarter direction, work cross-functionally and scale Security Engineering into a team that continues to own Upvest's entire application security and cloud security posture in a highly regulated environment as it scales.

This role sits alongside our Security Operations and GRC teams, which owns detection, response, and compliance operations. Where SecOps keeps watch over what's happening now, Security Engineering shapes what we build and how we build it, embedding security into the SDLC, hardening our cloud environment, and building the platforms that…

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