Senior Backend Engineer

SumUp · Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany ·
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<h2><strong>About the team</strong></h2> <p>At SumUp, we're on a mission to bring merchants and consumers closer together and help local communities thrive. Within the Consumer Mission, we're building a <strong>rewarding banking experience</strong> that <strong>connects people to the small businesses they love</strong> while tackling some of the most technically demanding challenges in fintech: critical infrastructure migrations, smooth, uninterrupted payment experiences, seamless open banking integrations, and high‑availability banking systems that can't afford to fail – all while enabling free transactions for our merchants.</p> <p>This role sits at the heart of that work — you'll take real ownership of backend services that are close to our consumers, directly shaping their everyday experience, with impact that's visible and felt across the entire platform.</p> <p><br>🎥 <a href="https://youtu.be/uWNyTvZGeew?si=IiJBUDQe8yJpOFwq">Take a look inside our London office</a></p> <h2><strong>What you'll do</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Build and maintain Backend services for Core neobanking features including bank transfers, open banking, savings accounts, and payment processing</li> <li>Take end-to-end ownership of features and projects, covering scoping, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance, leveraging Go along with Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration.</li> <li>Take ownership of critical infrastructure migrations — including our banking core system tr