About the Backoffice Squad:

The team is responsible for enabling the operational teams and designing a robust framework for building bespoke flows to help optimize the work of all the different types of operational agents. We want to empower other engineering squads to contribute to the flows by maintaining backoffices apps that are owned by the responsible squads.

The team will build and own:

• A platform for building back office apps.
• A guideline and documentation for building and documenting APIs for integrating with the new backoffice;

The team will coordinate (with other squads):

• Issue resolution in our current backoffice monolith;
• Moving team by team to the new backoffice platform;
• Moving team by team to build APIs;

About the role & what you’ll do

As a Fullstack Engineer, you will lead the software architecture and development of a complex system.

• You will familiarise yourself with - and support - the existing backoffice; develop a new foundation for the new backoffice and help guide the process of migrating to the new backoffice framework.
• You will coordinate and collaborate across multiple teams, and provide useful tooling, guidance and support.
• You will be in charge of leading architectural discussions; analyze, propose and implement solutions and guide the team through technical challenges.

You’ll be great for this role if you have:

• Experience with JavaScript or TypeScript, and NodeJS
• Experience with Golang or willingness to learn and work with the language
• Experience with ReactJS, HTML, CSS
• Strong experience with working on large-scale full-stack systems (any back-end language)
• Experience with distributed systems
• Experience with message based communication between services
• Experience with deployment to kubernetes or equivalent cloud based solutions
• Experience with productionizing large-scale applications 
• Motivation, drive and founder's mentality
• Eagerness to help other engineers be more productive
• Empathetic and able to easily build relationships
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Humble, curious, and open-minded with a growth mindset, thriving on continuous feedback

Nice to have:

• Experience working with platform products
• Experience working with stakeholders from other teams you support
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (preferably with Kubernetes) 

Why you should join SumUp:

🌍  Hybrid or on-site in Berlin is preferred. We are open to remote work in other locations  (+/- 1 hour of CET timezone) if you are able to travel to the office semi-regularly.

📚  A dedicated annual L&D budget for attending conferences and/or advancing your career through further education

🚀  Enrolment onto our VSOP 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

💶  A corporate pension scheme where we match up to 20% of your contributions

🚵🏾‍♂️  Numerous other benefits such as Urban Sports Club subsidy, Kita placement assistance, relocation assistance, subsidised office lunches.

About us:

SumUp is a leading financial technology company, founded in 2012 with the goal of empowering small businesses around the globe. We’re the financial partner of choice for more than 4 million merchants in over 35 markets. We collectively build, plan and fine-tune the technology that drives SumUp and empowers small businesses around the world.

We believe in the everyday hero. Those who have the courage to follow their passion and who have the strength and determination to realise their dreams. Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we're creating powerful, easy-to-use financial solutions to help them run their business. With a founders mentality and a 'team-first attitude' our diverse teams across Europe, South America, and the United States work together to ensure that small business owners 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.

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