Backend engineer in digital banking

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.

• 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.

• Solid programming experience and interest in working in any of these modern languages (Java, Kotlin, Golang 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

• 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.
• The opportunity to work on large scale fintech products used by millions of businesses around the world
• You’ll receive 25 days’ paid leave, plus 1 additional day for each year of employment.
• You can take up to 10 days’ educational leave to expand your skill set.
• 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
• Access to the SumUp Sabbatical, our Employee assistance program for mental health
• Join a global team where you belong: Check out our D&I Initiatives and Employee Resource Groups such as Pride Club, SumAfro, Neurodiversity, Grupos Mais, Women in Tech, and more
• We offer additional health insurance, a subsidized Multisport card, free shuttle buses from Joliot-Curie metro station and other great benefits.
• You’ll attend global offsites and/or hackathons