Backend Engineer (Golang) - Transfers Europe
Job description
Backend Engineer role in SumUp's Transfers Europe squad, building and running backend services behind SEPA and UK transfer flows. The role focuses on production money movement services, reliability, and integration with financial networks.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- On-site · Berlin, Germany
- Languages
- English
What you'll do
- Build and maintain production money movement backend services, contributing to their delivery, observability, and ongoing maintenance
- Own and deliver well-defined tasks and features, and contribute to larger projects within the team's domain
- Contribute to technical design and implementation, following established architectural patterns and best practices
- Improve service reliability and quality by writing tests, enhancing monitoring, and following established delivery pipelines
- Support the operation of the systems you work on by participating in on-call rotations, incident response, and learning from post-incident reviews
- Apply a backend and systems perspective during refinement, raising questions about risks, dependencies, and edge cases
- Collaborate closely with Product, QA, and other engineers to deliver end-to-end transfer and banking capabilities
What we're looking for
- Experience building backend services in a modern environment and supporting them in production
- Proficient in Golang and comfortable learning and working with other languages as needed
- Comfortable working with cloud-based systems, containerized workloads, and automated delivery pipelines
- Raise well-scoped pull requests, conduct thorough code reviews, and help maintain high standards of code quality and test coverage across the team
- Understand the fundamentals of system architecture, data modelling, and API design, and are eager to deepen this knowledge
- Curious about how your work fits into the broader system and product experience
- Communicate clearly and collaborate effectively with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders
Nice to have
- Exposure to banking, payments, or financial systems, especially in regulated environments
- Experience supporting systems with production traffic, including participating in incident response
- Use of AI-assisted tools to improve development speed, learning, or code quality
Your team
Transfers Europe squad
The integration layer connecting SumUp's internal systems with the financial networks that move money across Europe and the UK; builds and runs the backend services behind SEPA and UK transfer flows.
Benefits
Opportunity to work with SumUppers globally on large-scale fintech products used by millions of businesses worldwide, from our Berlin office
- Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
- Enrolment onto our Virtual Stock Option programme
- A dedicated annual L&D budget of €2000 for your individual development
- A corporate pension scheme where we match up to 20% of your contributions
- Generous time off: 28 days of paid leave plus public holidays and special leave days
- Numerous other benefits such as Urban Sports Club subsidy, Kita placement assistance, subsidised office lunches
- Break4me: 1-month sabbatical after 3 years of service
- Referral Bonus
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About SumUp
Be empowered to do more that matters.
SumUp provides simple, affordable tools to start, run, and grow a business, and builds the financial services that help merchants manage their money. Today, over 4 million businesses in 36 markets rely on SumUp as their financial partner to manage payments, finance and customer relationships.
Mission
Empower small businesses across the globe by providing a vast set of simple and affordable business tools to help them start, run, and grow their businesses.
Key facts
- over 3,000 SumUppers
- Fintech
- Over 4 million businesses in 36 markets rely on SumUp
- Over 3,000 SumUppers from over 90 nationalities
- Global Bank teams build financial services for merchants
What they value
- Inclusivity
- Continuous learning
- Diversity