Senior Backend Engineer (Golang)
SumUpJob Overview
Join SumUp as a Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) in Sofia, Bulgaria, and be part of our Verification Squad. Our mission is to integrate SumUp with external and internal sources to automate KYC processes, ensuring compliance with AML regulations, preventing fraud, and speeding up merchant onboarding. We focus on large-scale automated verification, partnering with top data and service providers for a fast, secure onboarding experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with peers and stakeholders to design and build a unified global platform, including high-level APIs for multiple regions and local implementations, ensuring high availability and observability.
- Build and maintain highly available, self-healing, and resilient systems.
- Support the migration of systems and processes, ensuring zero downtime for clients, and design, implement, and support high-value features for customers.
- Improve test coverage for existing services and own the end-to-end delivery of changes, including testing, observability, and monitoring.
- Continuously improve our engineering culture by refining best practices, clarifying problems and opportunities, prototyping solutions, providing comprehensive documentation, and selecting new tools and technologies.
Qualifications
- Solid programming experience (5+ years) in Golang and interest in working with additional languages such as Java, Kotlin, and Ruby.
- Extensive experience as a Backend Engineer specializing in distributed, fault-tolerant, and event-driven systems.
- Proven experience in system design, data modeling, and API design.
- Hands-on experience with Kafka, Postgres, SQL databases, and modern cloud technologies (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with CI/CD products such as GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.
- A keen sense of ownership and dedication to writing clear, maintainable, and testable code.
- Passionate about solving user challenges and improving products.
Why Join SumUp?
- Be part of a truly global team of 3000+ people from 80+ countries, spread across 4 continents.
- Enjoy 25 days’ paid leave, plus 1 additional day for each year of employment.
- Take up to 10 days’ educational leave to expand your skill set.
- Access a dedicated annual Learning & Development budget (2000€ / year) for attending conferences and/or advancing your career through further education.
- Enrollment onto our virtual stock ownership program - you will own a stake in SumUp’s future success.
- Access to our Employee assistance program for mental health.
- Additional health insurance and a subsidised Multisport card.
- Attend global offsites and/or hackathons.
About SumUp
SumUp is a leading global financial technology company driven by the purpose of leveling the playing field for small businesses. We create powerful, easy-to-use financial solutions to help small business owners 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. We do not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other basis protected by applicable laws or prohibited by company policy.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Medical insurance
- 25 days’ paid leave
- Educational leave
- Learning & Development budget
- Virtual stock ownership program
- Employee assistance program
- Additional health insurance
- Subsidised Multisport card
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