The opportunity
The Global Bank tribe at SumUp, builds the financial tools that help small businesses manage their money more confidently, including Expenses and Making Tax Digital, two products that sit at the heart of SumUp's accounting and compliance offering. In this role you will join a…
What you'll do
Build and maintain backend services and APIs for the Expenses and MTD products using Node.js and TypeScript
Contribute to backend development and API design, including building and: refactoring services to support evolving product requirements
Contribute actively to backend services reliability within the squad,: including CI/CD workflows, Kubernetes deployments, monitoring, and observability tooling
Collaborate with Product, Design, and cross-functional squads to deliver: scalable, testable, and maintainable code
Participate in code reviews, contribute to architecture and technical: decisions, and help evolve the squad's engineering practices
Contribute to the React.js frontend when needed by building and improving: user-facing features and integrating backend APIs
What they're looking for
- Have solid proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript, with a track record of: building and maintaining microservices
- Can contribute to user-facing frontend features in React.js
- Are comfortable working in a small, autonomous squad where ownership is expected from day one
- Have can reason about API design and architectural trade-offs, including: familiarity with event-driven concepts and tools such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
