The opportunity
At SumUp, we're on a mission to bring merchants and consumers closer together and help local communities thrive. With SumUp Consumer, we're building a rewarding banking experience that connects people to the small businesses they love while enabling free transactions for our merchants.
What you'll do
Lead and build a high-performing team by coaching, mentoring, and supporting: engineers in their growth and development.
Stay hands-on with technology—contributing to system design, reviewing code,: and guiding technical decisions to ensure high-quality, scalable solutions.
Partner closely with Product and Design to define goals, translate user needs: into technical solutions, and deliver impactful features.
Drive execution and delivery, balancing speed and quality while ensuring: reliable and scalable backend systems.
Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and business teams: to align priorities and make thoughtful trade-offs.
Shape the engineering culture by promoting best practices, ownership, and continuous improvement.
What they're looking for
- Advocate for the user, ensuring we build products that truly improve the: experience for local merchants and consumers.
- A strong backend or mobile engineering background, with hands-on experience: building distributed systems, APIs, and scalable services.
- Proven experience as an Engineering Manager (2+ years), with a track record: of leading, mentoring, and growing high-performing engineering teams.
- A hands-on mindset—you enjoy staying close to the code, contributing to: technical decisions, and tackling complex challenges, not just managing from a distance.
