Go Backend Engineer II for LATAM Expansion

SumUp Inc.; Santiago; On-site; CLP 28,000,000 - 36,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

L&D budget

20 days paid leave

Sabbatical after 3 years

Referral bonus

Meal allowances

Childcare support

Transportation stipend

Home internet allowance

Job summary

SumUp Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer II for Expansion LATAM in Santiago, Chile. You’ll build and operate backend Go services enabling payments, onboarding, payouts and taxes for new markets.

Join a cross-functional team focused on reliable production systems, testing, monitoring, and incident reviews, while collaborating with global teams and product partners to translate merchant needs into robust business rules.

Qualifications

• Backend development experience delivering changes independently in live services, with Go as the main language or willingness to learn Go.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, data modelling, transactions and query optimisation.
• Solid understanding of APIs and distributed systems, including timeouts, retries and idempotency.
• Comfort with automated testing, CI/CD and code reviews, and ability to investigate production issues using logs/monitoring tools.
• Ability to communicate technical options clearly in English with global teams and decide when to seek help.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services in Go for payments, onboarding, payouts and taxes, supporting new market launches.
• Take changes from requirements to production, including testing, deployment and post-release checks.
• Choose practical technical approaches and propose small design improvements.
• Strengthen reliability by improving tests, monitoring and runbooks, and by reducing technical debt.
• Investigate production issues using logs, metrics and traces, and lead incident reviews.

Skills

Go backend

Relational DBs

APIs & distributed

CI/CD

English communication

Job description

SumUp Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer II for Expansion LATAM in Santiago, Chile. You’ll build and operate backend Go services enabling payments, onboarding, payouts and taxes for new markets.

Join a cross-functional team focused on reliable production systems, testing, monitoring, and incident reviews, while collaborating with global teams and product partners to translate merchant needs into robust business rules.