Lead Backend Engineer - Merchant Growth

Who we are

The Merchant Growth Tribe’s mission is to build an ecosystem of simple yet powerful products for our 1.5m+ merchants around the world which will help them grow their business. This includes our Point-of-Sale team, which is building our core product that allows our merchants to process contactless payments seamlessly. We also have a team building an Invoicing & Accounting platform to help streamline small business invoicing needs and an eCommerce team, building brand new websites, tools to track multichannel markets and offer customers live chat support.

We’re looking for a Technical Lead to help drive our engineering roadmap for the Sales & Order Platform, working to develop a highly scalable API to create a unified sales history for all our merchants here at SumUp.

What you’ll do

• Participate in REST API design and implementation for both internal APIs and those exposed to our third-party integrators.

• Take ownership of individual and team efforts. You strive to keep deadlines and communicate clearly about any potential roadblocks. Ownership also means to empower other team members and delegate work loads as is necessary.

• Actively provide code review feedback to other software engineers, considering both style and implementation.

• Provide thoughtful and comprehensive documentation and testing for your features before shipping them.

You’ll be great for this role if

• You have 10+ years’ relevant experience in building scalable robust transactional systems and first-hand experience in leading a team of skilled engineers.

• You have vast experience with event-streaming platforms such as Kafka for partitioning huge amounts of data.

• You’re an expert at JVM-based languages. You have vast experience with a microservices architecture, event-driven design, and RESTful APIs.

• You have experience working with AWS or similar as well as orchestration software such as Kubernetes.

Why you should join SumUp

• We’re a truly global team of 2000+ people from 60+ countries, spread across 3 continents.

• You’ll have the opportunity to make an impact as we work in flat hierarchies.

• You’ll attend global offsites and regular team events.

• You’ll receive a budget for attending conferences and external training.

• We offer a corporate pension scheme, 28 days’ paid leave, free German and yoga classes, subsidised Urban Sports Club membership and other great benefits.

About SumUp

We believe in the everyday hero.

Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we’re creating powerful, easy-to-use financial solutions to help them run their businesses. With a founder’s mentality and a ’team-first’ attitude, our diverse teams across Europe, South America and the United States work together to ensure that small business owners can be successful doing what they love.

SumUp is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. SumUp does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, colour, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other basis protected by applicable laws or prohibited by company policy. SumUp also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.

SumUp will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate.

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