Senior Backend Engineer (Golang)

In the Global Bank tribe, we are building the infrastructure and core services needed to provide our merchants with a digital bank account that empowers them to be successful at doing what they love. Our goal is to become the most popular banking partner for small merchants globally by offering a high-quality banking experience tailored to their needs—effortless, simple, and affordable.

Joining the Global Bank tribe means playing a key role in helping us build SumUp's digital bank. You’ll collaborate with a global, autonomous, cross-functional team that refines an aspect of our product from concept to execution. Work alongside colleagues from 32 nationalities across Cologne, Berlin, São Paulo, Sofia, London and Vilnius, united by a shared commitment to taking ownership, working with purpose, and helping small businesses thrive.

As a Senior Backend Engineer in our Vilnius office, you'll join a team responsible for evolving and maintaining our high-throughput banking ecosystem for merchants. You’ll play a key role in architecting and evolving our global banking platform; ensuring high availability, scalability, and observability across multiple regions. If you'd like to gain experience building business accounts, card payment, and transfers products etc, across Europe and Latam for SumUp's Global Bank, join us and be part of this exciting journey!

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with a global team to design and build a unified global banking platform. This includes high-level APIs for multiple regions and local implementations, ensuring high availability and observability
• Be part of the transformation team that is transforming monolithic services into decoupled, highly scalable, region-agnostic, unified global bank services
• Design, implement, and iteratively develop highly available backend services, while continuously evaluating and implementing new methods to ensure the high reliability of transfer systems
• Maintain and improve core services utilizing a modern, cloud-native technology stack (AWS, K8s), with microservices written in Golang, Kotlin and Java and Elixir.
• Improve test coverage for existing services and drive the end-to-end delivery of changes, including testing, observability, and monitoring.
• Shape and continuously improve our engineering culture by sharing ideas, refining best practices, exploring innovative solutions, and contributing to comprehensive documentation and tool selection.

You’ll be great for this role if

• Solid programming experience in Golang and are interested in working with additional languages such as Java, Kotlin and Elixir.
• You have advanced understanding of developing and maintaining distributed and event-driven systems.
• You have solid experience with event streaming platforms and messaging brokers such as Kafka
• You have experience with modern cloud technologies like AWS, and containerization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
• You feel comfortable working with SQL and NoSQL databases
• You are experienced with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions or ArgoCD
• You take pride in your work, have a keen sense of ownership, and are dedicated to writing clear, maintainable, and testable code.
• Your curiosity and enthusiasm for solving meaningful challenges for users and a commitment to collaboration and continuous learning.
• You are comfortable pairing with your peers on a day-to-day basis, sharing knowledge and learning from each other, fostering the culture of knowledge sharing

Why you should join SumUp

• Be part of a company that values diversity and celebrates unique perspectives.
• Work with a global team of skilled professionals in an environment that fosters collaboration, learning, and growth.
• Be part of a global tribe building a banking solution from the ground up and delivering impactful solutions to the real-life problems of millions of SumUp merchants all over the world
• 25 days annual leave + Birthday Leave
• Career growth and learning opportunities: We invest in your development through regular training, mentorship programs, SumUp University leadership cohort and a yearly learning budget (2,000 EUR)
• Enrollment onto our virtual stock ownership program - you will own a stake in SumUp’s future success
• The opportunity to work on large scale fintech products used by millions of businesses around the world
• Health Insurance, Death & Disability Insurance
• Access to the SumUp Sabbatical, our Employee assistance program for mental health as well as Fitness and Transport allowance and language learning benefits.
• You’ll attend global offsites and/or hackathons.

Compensation: Starting from 5250 - 7500 Euro Gross / month + 2000 EUR Learning budget p/a + Virtual Stock Options (based on your competencies relevant for the job).

About SumUp

Be empowered to do more that matters.

At SumUp, we're on a mission to empower small businesses across the globe by providing simple and affordable tools that allow them to thrive. Today, over 4 million businesses in 36 markets rely on SumUp as their financial partner to manage payments, finance and customer relationships.

Our commitment to small businesses is reflected in our diverse team of over 3,000 SumUppers from over 90 nationalities, united by global collaboration and an innovative mindset. Our core values lay the foundation for who we are and what we stand for, shaping our work culture and driving our success. We foster inclusivity and a continuous learning culture, providing a safe space for personal and professional growth. Our differences make us unique and strong as we strive to create an environment where everyone belongs and feels supported, no matter how they identify.

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