The opportunity
SumUp helps businesses get paid effortlessly, process orders fast, sell online instantly, and manage money smarter. We build the tools that let merchants thrive and deliver outstanding customer experiences.
What you'll do
Shape technical direction: contribute to platform-wide decisions as part of the Payments leadership team and influence long-term technical strategy.
Take ownership of technical delivery: define short- and long-term goals with Product, drive technical design and architecture discussions, and ensure timely, high-quality execution.
Grow and support your team: provide coaching, feedback, and structured performance development while fostering a collaborative, high-performing culture.
Promote cross-functional alignment: build strong collaboration across engineering, product, and business teams in a dynamic environment.
Manage priorities and context-switching: coordinate shifting priorities across multiple teams or domains, balancing business needs with engineering focus.
Drive engagement and knowledge sharing: lead initiatives like hackathons, cross-team projects and internal community events.
What they're looking for
- Contribute hands-on: review designs and code when needed, and help solve complex backend challenges.
- You have deep backend engineering experience and hands-on work with: distributed systems, APIs, and databases. Experience with Go and cloud-native environments (preferably AWS) is a plus.
- You’ve managed engineering teams in complex environments involving multiple: technologies, priorities, and cross-functional collaboration — ideally in high-reliability or fintech domains.
- You can manage multiple domains or teams with different focus areas, shifting: context and priorities with ease.
