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Senior Backend Engineer

Run & Grow

Location

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Work type

Onsite

Employment

Full Time

Experience

5-8 years

Compensation

Compensation not disclosed

Posted

5d ago

Summary and responsibilities

Role overview

Summary

As a Senior Backend Engineer in the Run & Grow tribe at SumUp, you will design, build, and operate production-grade backend services and APIs using Go, focusing on merchant acquisition, identity, marketing technology, operations, risk, and compliance. You will own technical work end-to-end, from system design to deployment, and collaborate across various teams to deliver scalable solutions.

What you’ll do:

  • Design, build, and operate production-grade backend services, APIs, and integrations, primarily using Go.

  • Build event-driven workflows and distributed systems using technologies such as Kafka and asynchronous processing.

  • Define clear service boundaries, data models, schemas, and API contracts that other teams can use confidently.

  • Build capabilities supporting merchant acquisition, identity, marketing technology, operations, risk, and compliance.

  • Own technical work end to end, from discovery and system design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production follow-up.

  • Modernise existing services and improve reliability through observability, security, failure handling, and incident response.

  • Collaborate with Product, Data, Operations, Compliance, Risk, Sales, Marketing, and other engineering teams to turn complex requirements into practical solutions.

  • Review code and designs, make pragmatic technical trade-offs, share knowledge, and mentor engineers around you.

You’ll be great for this role if you:

  • Bring a strong backend engineering background in Go, or are a typed-language generalist ready to ramp up quickly.

  • Have designed APIs and distributed systems with clear contracts, versioning, and integration patterns.

  • Are fluent in relational and analytical databases (PostgreSQL, Snowflake) and comfortable making the right choice for the right use case.

  • Have built Kafka-based, event-driven systems and understand event sourcing and CDC patterns.

  • Have experience in auditable, high-trust systems where every decision must be traceable fintech, payments, or similar domains.

  • Have experience with testing, observability, and incident response practices and treat them as first-class concerns, not afterthoughts.

  • Take ownership of ambiguous problems and turn them into clear, scalable, and maintainable solutions.

  • Communicate clearly, collaborate effectively, and explain technical concepts and trade-offs to different audiences.

  • Value pragmatic engineering, continuous improvement, mentoring, and reliable production operations.

Updated 5d ago

Candidate fit

Skills and qualifications

Additional skills

Go • 1+ yrs
Kafka • 1+ yrs
PostgreSQL • 1+ yrs
Snowflake • 1+ yrs
API Design • 1+ yrs
Distributed Systems • 1+ yrs
Event-driven Systems • 1+ yrs
Observability • 1+ yrs

Experience

5-8 years

How this role is positioned

Role classification

Job domains

Engineering

Industries

Finance & Banking

Employment

Full Time

Contract duration

Permanent

Hiring type

Direct

Global hiring

Location specific

Offer details

Compensation and benefits

Compensation

Compensation not disclosed

VisibilityShared on listing
CurrencyUSD
PeriodYearly

Benefits and perks

Employee Referral Bonus
Relocation Assistance

Location, schedule, and role shape

Work setup

Work conditions

Primary locationCologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Work typeOnsite
Global hiringNo

Bandwidth profile

peopleHigh • 8/10
physicalLow • 1/10
cognitiveHigh • 9/10
executionHigh • 8/10
creativityMedium • 7/10
uncertaintyMedium • 7/10
communicationHigh • 8/10

Context on the employer

Company snapshot

Company

SumUp

Team size

Growing team

Location

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

At SumUp, we empower small businesses globally with simple and affordable tools for payments, finance, and customer relationships. Serving over 4 million businesses in 36 markets, our diverse team of over 3,000 SumUppers from 90+ nationalities is united by global collaboration and an innovative mindset, fostering an inclusive and continuous learning culture.

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Senior Backend Engineer

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany • Full Time