3 days ago
Santiago, ChileMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain backend services for payments, onboarding, payouts, taxes, and new market launches.
- Deliver changes from requirements through testing, deployment, and post-release validation.
- Select practical technical approaches, explain trade-offs, and recommend design improvements.
- Improve reliability through stronger tests, monitoring, runbooks, and technical-debt reduction.
- Investigate production issues using logs, metrics, and traces, and lead incident reviews for assigned services.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and local teams to translate merchant needs into business rules.
Requirements
- Experience delivering backend changes independently in live services, with proficiency in Go or another backend language and willingness to learn Go.
- Strong knowledge of relational databases, including data modeling, transactions, and query optimization.
- Solid understanding of APIs and distributed systems, including timeouts, retries, and idempotency.
- Comfort with automated testing, CI/CD, code reviews, and production issue investigation using logs and monitoring tools.
- Ability to communicate progress, risks, and blockers clearly in English with global teams and exercise sound independent judgment.
Benefits
- Office-first work setup from SumUp’s Santiago office.
- Enrollment in SumUp’s Virtual Stock Option programme.
- Dedicated annual learning and development budget for conferences or further education.
- 20 days of paid leave plus public holidays and special leave days.
- Health insurance including optical and dental coverage, plus life insurance through Zurich.
- Tax-free meal, childcare, transportation, and home-internet allowances.
- One-month sabbatical after three years of service.
- Referral bonus programme.
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.