Golang Backend Engineer — Money Movement at Scale (Europe)

SumUp; Berlin (NH); On-site; USD 80,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Pension scheme matching 20%

28 days paid leave + holidays

Urban Sports Club subsidy

Sabbatical after 3 years

Job summary

SumUp in Berlin is seeking a Backend Engineer to own and operate money movement backend services within the Transfers Europe squad. You’ll work on complex systems problems behind SEPA and UK transfer flows, ensuring reliable integration with external networks and direct impact on merchant trust.

The role leverages Golang, AWS, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kubernetes, with a strong observability toolset and AI-assisted development tools.

Qualifications

• Experience building backend services in a modern environment and supporting them in production.
• Proficient in Golang and comfortable learning other languages as needed.
• Familiar with cloud-based systems, containerized workloads, and automated delivery pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain production money movement backend services, contributing to their delivery, observability, and ongoing maintenance.
• Own and deliver well-defined tasks and features, contributing 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 delivery pipelines.
• Support the operation of the systems by participating in on-call rotations and incident response.
• Apply backend and systems perspective during refinement, raising risks and edge cases.
• Collaborate with Product, QA, and engineers to deliver end-to-end transfer and banking capabilities.

Skills

Golang

AWS

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kubernetes

Observability

Tools

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

SumUp in Berlin is seeking a Backend Engineer to own and operate money movement backend services within the Transfers Europe squad. You’ll work on complex systems problems behind SEPA and UK transfer flows, ensuring reliable integration with external networks and direct impact on merchant trust.

The role leverages Golang, AWS, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kubernetes, with a strong observability toolset and AI-assisted development tools.