Senior Software Engineer I

About SumUp

We believe in the everyday hero.

Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we're creating tools that 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. 

Team Description

The Lending team offers a fair, easy, timely and financially relevant lending experience to small merchants. Empower small business owners to manage their financing independently of the stage of their business, either funding their growth, managing their cash flow or covering their operational costs. Enable capital to be available to our merchants and consumers, always and everywhere.

We are looking for our new Senior Software Engineer for our team responsible for developing and maintaining the backend of the Origination experience on the Lending product at SumUp. This includes designing, implementing, and testing new features, as well as improving the performance and scalability of existing ones.

What you’ll do

• The goal is to improve the functionality and user experience of SumUp's lending platform, and to ensure that it meets the needs of our merchants.
• Redesign of the conversion experience on the Cash Advance product, considering differences between markets;
• Improve the performance and scalability of the systems;
• Design and develop integration with external partners to enable growth.
• Contribute to the development of a high-performing team.

You’ll be great for this role if

• More than 4 years of experience as a Software Engineer 
• Experience with Golang or other OOP languages such as Java, Kotlin, Python, etc. 
• Experience with RESTful API design and development.
• Experience with Git and Git workflows.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, such as PostgreSQL
• Good English communication skills to engage in technical refinements with an international team

It will be an awesome add

• Experience in creating and maintaining simple components in React.
• Experience in a fintech/startup environment

Why you should join SumUp

• Opportunity to work with a truly global, multicultural team (we are 3000+ people from 93 countries, spread across 4 continents).
• Learning & development budget for attending conferences and external training
• Competitive salary package and virtual stock option programme
• Office relaxation activities such as yoga and massages and regular brunches, football events and office parties
• 23 days paid vacation days
• Additional health insurance and Multisport card
• Restaurant ticket
• An amazing team and work environment that works with passion and purpose to achieve incredible results

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.

SumUp will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate