The opportunity
In this role as Engineering Manager for our Verification squad, you will lead the team responsible for identity checks across all of SumUp's markets. This is a high-impact opportunity to guide a team running high-stakes work streams across KYC and a wide range of regulatory…
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
- 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
