Engineering manager for identity verification

SumUp; Berlin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Пенсионная схема (match до 20%)

€2000 годовой бюджет на обучение/развo

28 дней отпуска

Subsidised office lunches

Urban Sports Club/subsidy

Break4me — 1 месяц саббатикала после 3

Job summary

SumUp Inc. ищет руководителя инженерной команды для Verification в Берлине.

Вы возглавите squad, отвечающий за верификацию личности в нескольких регуляторных средах и рынках, курируя переход отlegacy-архитектуры к современным решениям. Ключевые задачи — сотрудничество с PM и Compliance, развитие инженерной культуры, обеспечение надёжности и соответствия требованиям регуляторов, включая AI-элементы и трассируемость процессов.

Qualifications

• Опыт руководства инженерной командой через техническую трансформацию и миграции.
• Глубокие знания Go и архитектуры API/интеграций.
• Опыт работы с наблюдаемостью, CI/CD и тестированием.

Responsibilities

• Возглавляете Verification Squad, устраняете узкие места и координируете работу между подразделениями.
• Переводите требования KYC/KYB в конкретные инженерные задачи, учитывая регуляторные риски.
• Ведёте техническое и организационное развитие команды, уменьшаяlegacy-нагрузку и улучшая инструменты.
• Формируете дорожную карту совместно с PM, учитывая регуляторные требования и AI-элементы.
• Обеспечиваете надёжность, трассируемость и аудитируемость систем верификации, развивая культуру качественного кода.

Skills

Go

API/интеграционная архитектура

Observability

CI/CD

Testing practices

Лидерство команды

Job description

Описание: In this role as Engineering Manager for our Verification squad, you will lead the team responsible for identity checks across all of SumUp's markets. This is a high-impact opportunity to guide a team running high-stakes work streams across KYC and a wide range of regulatory environments, in a domain that is both technically complex and central to the customer journey.

Задачи:

• Lead the Verification Squad as its engineering leader, creating focus and momentum by removing bottlenecks, managing cross-team dependencies, and helping engineers navigate complexity across legacy systems and evolving processes.
• Partner closely with Product, Compliance, and Operations to translate complex cross-market KYC and KYB requirements into clear engineering outcomes, identifying buildability considerations and regulatory risks early.
• Drive the technical and organisational improvements that strengthen the squad over time, reducing legacy overhead, improving tooling, and fostering greater shared ownership and sustainable delivery practices.
• Shape roadmap priorities alongside the PM, ensuring trade-offs are well understood and that compliance requirements and AI-influenced features are properly accounted for.
• Maintain high standards for how verification systems are built and operated, ensuring flows are observable, failures are controlled, and AI-driven components meet the same bar for reliability, traceability, and auditability as any other part of the system Develop engineers with intention through regular 1:1s, direct feedback, and deliberate stretch opportunities, building a team with strong technical and product judgment

Требования:

• A proven track record of leading engineering teams through technical transformation, including large-scale migrations and legacy modernisation.
• You bring strong technical depth in backend technologies, particularly Go and API/integration architecture, and have hands‑on experience with observability, CI/CD, and testing practices You have experience (or a appetite to learn) in KYC/KYB regulatory environments and understand how frameworks like eIDAS interact with product and engineering decisions
• You combine strategic thinking with hands‑on technical credibility, and you communicate with clarity, empathy, and transparency across both technical and non-technical audiences
• You are a solid people leader who develops high performers, addresses underperformance directly and fairly, and builds psychologically safe, inclusive, high‑performing teams

Условия:

• Opportunity to work with SumUppers globally on large-scale fintech products used by millions of businesses worldwide, from our Berlin office.
• Enrollment onto our Virtual Stock Option programme: you will own a stake in SumUp’s future success
• A dedicated annual L&D budget of €2000 for attending conferences and/or advancing your career through further education
• A corporate pension scheme where we match up to 20% of your contributions
• Generous time off: enjoy 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: earn additional rewards by referring talented individuals to join the SumUp team