The opportunity
SumUp builds financial solutions for millions of small businesses worldwide. Our Identity Lifecycle mission powers the systems that determine who can access those solutions, ensuring every merchant we onboard is verified accurately, compliantly, and at scale.
What you'll do
Lead the Verification Squad as its engineering leader, creating focus and: momentum by removing bottlenecks, managing cross-team dependencies, and helping engineers navigate complexity across legacy systems and evolving processes.
Partner closely with Product, Compliance, and Operations to translate complex: cross-market KYC and KYB requirements into clear engineering outcomes, identifying buildability considerations and regulatory risks early.
Drive the technical and organisational improvements that strengthen the squad: over time, reducing legacy overhead, improving tooling, and fostering greater shared ownership and sustainable delivery practices.
Shape roadmap priorities alongside the PM, ensuring trade-offs are well: understood and that compliance requirements and AI-influenced features are properly accounted for.
Maintain high standards for how verification systems are built and operated,: ensuring flows are observable, failures are controlled, and AI-driven components meet the same bar for reliability, traceability, and auditability as any other part of the system
Develop engineers with intention through regular 1:1s, direct feedback, and: deliberate stretch opportunities, building a team with strong technical and product judgment
What they're looking for
- You have a proven track record of leading engineering teams through technical: transformation, including large-scale migrations and legacy modernisation.
- You bring strong technical depth in backend technologies, particularly Go and: API/integration architecture, and have hands-on experience with observability, CI/CD, and testing practices
- You have experience (or a appetite to learn) in KYC/KYB regulatory: environments and understand how frameworks like eIDAS interact with product and engineering decisions
- You combine strategic thinking with hands-on technical credibility, and you: communicate with clarity, empathy, and transparency across both technical and non-technical audiences
