14 hours ago
Berlin, GermanyMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain production backend services for money movement across European and UK transfer flows.
- Own and deliver well-defined tasks and features while contributing to larger projects.
- Contribute to technical design and implementation using established architectural patterns.
- Improve service reliability and quality through testing, monitoring, observability, and delivery pipelines.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
- Apply backend and systems expertise during refinement, including identifying risks, dependencies, and edge cases.
- Collaborate with Product, QA, and engineering teams to deliver transfer and banking capabilities.
Requirements
- Experience building and supporting backend services in production.
- Proficiency in Golang and willingness to learn and work with other languages.
- Comfort with cloud-based systems, containerized workloads, and automated delivery pipelines.
- Ability to create well-scoped pull requests, conduct code reviews, and maintain code quality and test coverage.
- Understanding of system architecture, data modelling, and API design.
- Clear communication and effective collaboration with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders.
- Exposure to banking, payments, or financial systems is a plus.
- Experience supporting production traffic and participating in incident response is a plus.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools is a plus.
Benefits
- Berlin-based office-first work setup.
- Enrollment in SumUp’s Virtual Stock Option programme.
- Annual €2000 learning and development budget.
- Corporate pension scheme matching up to 20% of employee contributions.
- 28 days of paid leave plus public holidays and special leave days.
- Urban Sports Club subsidy, Kita placement assistance, and subsidized office lunches.
- One-month sabbatical after three years of service.
- Referral bonus programme.
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About SumUp
SumUp builds card readers, point-of-sale apps, and payment tools for small businesses, along with accounts, invoicing, and online checkout. It sells hardware and earns fees on payment processing and subscriptions for software and services such as invoicing and loyalty. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in London, the company serves more than 4 million merchants across 30+ markets, and offers options like payment links and Tap to Pay.