Software Engineer II (Backend)
With the Lending product, SumUp provides loans to enable our merchants all over the globe to grow their businesses. Our goal is to remove bias in lending by building a fast, reliable, and data-driven process into the background and user-facing systems. We believe that we can achieve this ambitious goal only with solid engineering practices.
We are looking for a Software Engineer to be responsible for elevating the SumUp Lending product to the next level by implementing a variety of new functionalities. You will have the opportunity to grow and maintain Golang and React services that handle a large daily volume of data requiring resilient and scalable asynchronous processing.
What you'll do- Implement high-quality code, test, and validate the success of its usage.
- Be able to quickly identify blockers and ask for help during the implementation.
- Consume and produce technical documentation from and to external teams.
- Engage with product managers and stakeholders to understand customer pains and business opportunities.
- Contribute to the design process of the solutions from the perspective of building a product and following engineering best practices.
- 2+ years of experience on Agile teams
- Experience with a modern stack of technologies
- Good English communication skills to engage in technical refinements with an international team
- Experience with Golang programming language
- Experience in a fintech/startup environment
- You’re excited about asynchronous processing, data engineering, or data science.
- Your personal experiences can add to our diverse way of building products.
- We're a truly global team of 3200+ people from 80+ countries, spread across 4 continents
- A dedicated annual Learning & Development budget (up to € 2,000 per year) for attending conferences and/or advancing your career through further education
- Enrollment onto our virtual stock ownership program - you will own a stake in SumUp's future success
- The opportunity to work on large scale fintech products used by millions of businesses around the world
- Access to the SumUp Sabbatical program, our Employee assistance program for mental health
- Attend global offsites and/or hackathons
About SumUp
We believe in the everyday hero.
Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we create powerful, easy-to-use financial solutions to help them run their businesses. With a founder’s mentality and a 'team-first’ attitude, our diverse teams across Europe, South America, Australia and the United States work together to ensure that the small business owners we partner with can be successful doing what they love.
SumUp is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. SumUp does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, colour, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other basis protected by applicable laws or prohibited by company policy. SumUp also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.
SumUp will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate.
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