Backend Engineer (Golang) - Transfers Europe
SumUp, Berlin, Germany +5
The role
As a Backend Engineer, you’ll take ownership of services that process real money. You’ll work on complex systems problems to ensure seamless integrations as we scale, while seeing a direct connection between your engineering decisions and merchant trust.
If you enjoy understanding how systems behave under real-world conditions while improving them over time, we’d love to hear from you.
Our tech stack includes Golang, AWS, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis and Kubernetes, supported by a strong observability toolchain with Prometheus, Grafana, and Honeycomb. We also actively use AI‑assisted development tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and others.
What you will do
What you’ll do
- Build and maintain production money movement backend services, contributing to their delivery, observability, and ongoing maintenance.
- Own and deliver well‑defined tasks and features, and contribute to larger projects within the team’s domain.
- Contribute to technical design and implementation, following established architectural patterns and best practices.