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About the Role
The Merchant Intelligence squad is building foundational backend services that create a shared source of truth for product and merchant data across the business. This role involves designing and building these services from the ground up, working closely with product, data, and engineering teams to create scalable, reliable, and easy-to-integrate systems.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve foundational backend services focused on scalability, reliability, and ease of adoption.
- Develop and maintain robust APIs, data models, and integration patterns.
- Build and improve data ingestion, aggregation, and event-processing pipelines.
- Contribute to shaping the long-term architecture and strategy for the Product Catalogue and Merchant Intelligence services.
- Write high-quality, maintainable backend code following engineering best practices.
- Collaborate with product managers, data teams, and engineers to identify needs and solve complex data challenges.
- Work across squad and domain boundaries to support integrations and improve data consistency.
- Help define engineering standards, technical direction, and ways of working in a newly established squad.
Requirements
- Strong professional experience in backend engineering, building and operating reliable production systems.
- Solid experience with Golang and designing scalable backend services.
- Strong knowledge of API design, system design, and data modeling.
- Hands-on experience with Postgres or similar relational databases.
- Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and message brokers such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.
- A strong ownership mindset, with the ability to work independently and navigate ambiguity.
- Clear communication skills and a collaborative approach.
Skills
- Golang
- API design
- System design
- Data modeling
- Postgres
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Event-driven architectures
- RabbitMQ
- Kafka
Location
- Berlin
Work Type
- Office-first
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Hack Days every second Friday
- Global Hack Weeks
- Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
- Annual L&D budget of €2,000
- VSOP program
- Corporate pension scheme (20% match)
- 30 Days Sabbatical after 3 years
- Referral Bonus
- Urban Sports Club subsidy
- Kita placement assistance
- Relocation assistance
- Subsidised office lunches
About the Company
- SumUp is on a mission to empower small businesses across the globe by providing simple and affordable tools that allow them to thrive.
- Over 4 million businesses in 36 markets rely on SumUp.
- The team consists of over 3,000 SumUppers from over 90 nationalities.
- Fosters inclusivity and a continuous learning culture.
- Strives to create an environment where everyone belongs and feels supported.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.