Senior Backend Engineer at SumUp
Berlin, Berlin, Germany -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

07 Dec, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

08 Sep, 26

Experience

0 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Yes

Skills

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Description

TasksWhat you’ll do:

  • Design, build, and operate scalable backend services, APIs, event-driven workflows, and system integrations.
  • Build reusable capabilities that power merchant onboarding, identity verification, and KYC/KYB regulatory data collection.
  • Drive reliability and resilience across critical services through better observability, failure handling, incident response, and long-term risk reduction.
  • Work primarily with Go, while maintaining and progressively modernising existing services written in Java.
  • Evolve domain models and service boundaries while reducing legacy complexity, duplicated logic, and tightly coupled integrations, always with a pragmatic, incremental mindset.
  • Own your work end-to-end, from technical design and implementation to rollout and production follow-up.
  • Work across team and domain boundaries, turning ambiguous product and regulatory requirements into clear, scalable technical solutions.
  • Review code and designs, mentor engineers, and help raise engineering standards across the mission.

You’ll be great for this role if you have:

  • Strong professional experience building and operating production backend systems with high business impact. 
  • Experience working with Go and Java and confidence in maintaining and evolving existing Java services.
  • Strong knowledge of API design, distributed systems, asynchronous processing, data modelling, testing, and system design.
  • Experience with event streaming platforms such as Kafka and modern observability tools such as Grafana or Honeycomb.
  • Experience deploying and operating services in cloud environments such as AWS, ideally with Docker and Kubernetes.
  • A strong ownership mindset, with the ability to take complex problems from definition through to production.
  • Experience improving the reliability of business-critical systems and turning recurring incidents into lasting engineering improvements.
  • Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to working across Engineering, Product, Compliance, Risk, and Operations.


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