Backend Engineer (Kotlin / Java) - Merchant Bank, Engagement

As a Backend Engineer in the Merchant Bank Tribe, you’ll be part of the team building SumUp's own digital bank. You’ll be part of a local, autonomous, cross-functional team that can take an aspect of our product and perfect it from concept to execution.

Sitting within the Merchant Bank Tribe, the Engagement value stream addresses how we can build solutions to simplify financial processes for small businesses operations. You’ll help us define ways to incentivize the customer to use the product and maximize the value the customer gets out of these operations. 

What you’ll do

  • Design, implement and iteratively create back-end services
  • Maintain and evolve the team core services
  • Participate in API design and implementation for both internal APIs and those exposed to our third-party integrators
  • Help your team deliver business value by taking decisions related to the back-end and actively participate in product discussions and code reviews with other engineers
  • Provide comprehensive documentation, good test coverage, and improve code quality
  • Collaborate with other software developers, QA and DevOps engineers to ensure smooth deployment, continuous integration and support for the software we deliver

You’ll be great for this role if

  • You have 4+ years of experience as a back-end engineer.
  • You have relevant experience with JVM-based programming languages.
  • You have experience with distributed and fault-tolerant systems.
  • You’re familiar with Spring, Micronaut, or another web MVC framework.
  • You have a passion for clean, maintainable, and testable code.
  • You understand fundamental system architecture, design principles, data modeling, and API design.
  • You have great verbal and written English communication skills.

Why you should join SumUp

  • We’re a truly global team of 2000+ people from 60+ countries, spread across 3 continents.
  • You'll attend global offsites and regular team events.
  • You’ll receive a budget for attending conferences and external training. 
  • We offer a corporate pension scheme, 28 days’ paid leave, free German and yoga classes, subsidized Urban Sports Club membership and other great benefits.

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, 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, color, 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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