Sponsoring GopherCon Europe 2023
Posted on May 26, 2023
| 2 minutes
| 223 words
| Geoffrey Teale (Head of Developer Experience)
Upvest are once again proudly sponsoring GopherCon EU 2023!
We had such a great time last year we were sure we’d be back. … and back we are. We’ll be in attendance on the two conference days, the 28th and 29th of June. This year we’re not only Gold Sponsors, but we’re also sponsoring diversity places at the conference. Upvest shares a vision of inclusiveness and diversity with GopherCon and we couldn’t think of a better way to reflect both than and our deep love of Go.
[Read More]Tribe workshop with Lego® Serious Play®
Posted on May 15, 2023
| 6 minutes
| 1189 words
| Katja Sommer (Head of Delivery)
At Upvest we give a good amount of thought to how to foster team collaboration. In this spirit, I recently facilitated a workshop using Lego® bricks for our newly formed Investment and Custody Solutions tribe.
About my role As Head of Delivery, I work with all of Upvest’s Product Engineering tribes, typically on topics such as OKRs, Team Health Checks, or ensuring our Engineering efforts are compliant.
Facilitating workshops like the one I’ll be describing below is an exciting and important extension of my work.
[Read More]Mob programming builds better remote development teams
Posted on March 2, 2023
| 6 minutes
| 1203 words
| Niko Will (Tech Lead)
TL;DR Are you working in a remote and distributed team and you have issues with your team culture, knowledge sharing and/or productivity because of too many context switches? Try out remote mob programming!
Hybrid work At Upvest we have a hybrid working environment which allows employees to work remotely and if they wish to, visit one of our offices. I joined the company in the middle of the pandemic when working from home was the default for most companies.
[Read More]The Philosophy of Technical Documentation at Upvest
Posted on January 31, 2023
| 14 minutes
| 2892 words
| Geoffrey Teale (Head of Developer Experience)
Geoff philosophising API Portal Screenshot Doctave Dashboard Technical Documentation at Upvest The product engineering teams at Upvest were already doing a good job of writing product documentation before I started at Upvest in July of 2022. That’s a testament to Upvest’s commitment to finding “product-minded” engineers and supporting them with dedicated “Product Managers”. I can’t stress enough how important that is to our outcomes. Despite this, I spent a lot of time and effort over the last six months, working on documentation.
[Read More]Publishing our OpenAPI Spec and Documentation
Posted on January 25, 2023
| 6 minutes
| 1278 words
| Geoffrey Teale (Head of Developer Experience)
More than just a milestone Sometimes life at Upvest seems like one long stream of milestones and reasons to celebrate. If you follow our social media you’ve probably grown used to a fairly continuous stream of exciting news and developments - last year was a huge year for us.
In 2022 we:
gained the BaFin licenses required for us to work with customers. secured $42M series B financing. signed our first Investment API customer and supported them in developing the first commercial project built with the Upvest API.
[Read More]My Experience as a Product Engineering Intern
Posted on November 28, 2022
| 3 minutes
| 437 words
| Monika Ghimire (Product Engineering Intern for Payments)
I started my engineering internship late last summer when we were still located at Torstraße.
My first day began with a quick tour of the office space and a warm welcome lunch with the team. I was onboarded into countless slack channels, ran through tools and applications and skimmed through documentation and checklists. My onboarding was not only exciting but also overwhelming given the surge of information I was sinking into.
[Read More]Talking DevX on 'Tech In Ten'
Posted on November 18, 2022
| 1 minutes
| 96 words
| Geoffrey Teale (Head of Developer Experience)
A word in your ear? Back in the summer, I had a call with Ben Malloy to talk about Developer eXperience. That chat is now available as the latest episode of Venturi’s ‘Tech in Ten’ podcast.
Tech in ten podcast If you’d like to hear my off-the-cuff remarks about what Developer eXperience is about, how it relates to other parts of technology leadership and what it means specifically to Upvest, then check it out here:
[Read More]Our Core Values
Posted on October 26, 2022
| 4 minutes
| 781 words
| Juha Ristolainen (Chief Technology Officer)
We are on a mission to make investing as easy as spending money. We want to enable the next hundred million people to better prepare for their future by democratizing access to capital markets and investing. We do this by helping our clients build great products that lower the barrier of entry for most folks.
We figure out what is important on our journey towards that mission by using Objectives and Key Results to help us focus on the most important things at any given time.
[Read More]The GDG Berlin Golang meetup, October 2022
Posted on October 12, 2022
| 2 minutes
| 356 words
| Geoffrey Teale (Head of Developer Experience)
GDG Berlin Go Meetup attendees Upvengers after the event Pizza and refreshments Thank you, attendees! I want to start by thanking everyone who took the time to join us at our Upvest HQ last night for the GDG Berlin Go meetup. It was my very great pleasure to meet so many of you, and share some pizza and drinks with you. I speak for everyone at Upvest when I saw that we’re glad to be able to support the community in this way, and we’re sure we’ll be doing it again.
[Read More]We're hosting the GDG Berlin Golang meetup for October 2022
Posted on October 6, 2022
| 2 minutes
| 228 words
| Geoffrey Teale (Head of Developer Experience)
The event We’re proud to announce, that we’ll be hosting the GDG Berlin Golang meetup at 19:00 CEST on the 12th of October, 2022 at our offices in Berlin.
You're a pink gopher? You're a blue gopher? Or maybe you're a brown gopher? All are welcome! Artwork Credits Artwork by Ashley McNamara inspired by Renee French Get your own at: https://gopherize.me/ The details The time is: 19:00 - 22:00 on the 12th of October 2022.
[Read More]