The Consumer Tribe, a startup within SumUp, builds products that turn transactions into easier, more engaging, and more meaningful interactions while improving consumers' financial lives. You will have a lot of autonomy to build processes from scratch, solve impactful problems, and shape the future of the team. Becoming a part of the Consumer Tribe means working alongside around 30 people across offices in Cologne, Berlin, and London who love taking ownership, working with purpose, and helping consumers thrive.
As a Backend Engineer (Golang), you will be responsible for optimising backend performance for transaction processing, implementing robust security measures, designing scalable architectures, creating user-friendly APIs with clear documentation, and emphasizing code quality through unit testing. We encourage the exploration of new languages and services, empowering our teams to choose the best technology for new projects. Currently, our Tribe is using Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, gRPC, Postgres, AWS, and Rest APIs.
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What you’ll do
Collaborate with other software developers, QAs, DevOps engineers, designers, product managers and other key stakeholders to design and implement backend services and APIs, clarify problems, outline opportunities, prototype solutions, ensure smooth deployment, continuous integration, and support existing functionalities
Work in a global context with teams in Europe, the US and Latin America
Provide comprehensive documentation and high test coverage
Actively participate in selection of new tools, technologies and processes, code reviews and pair programming with other software engineers
Help your team deliver business value by taking decisions related to the backend and actively participating in product discussions
Build capabilities that bring value to millions of users
Constantly adopt and actualize best practices with the team
You’ll be great for this role if
Solid backend experience in Golang
Strong experience in software architecture and application design, with a track record of making architectural decisions and a deep understanding of fundamental system architecture and API design (RESTful and event-driven services)
You feel comfortable working with SQL and NoSQL databases
You have solid debugging, optimisation and problem-solving skills
You have experience with CI/CD products such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD
You love to mentor people and share knowledge
You have a passion to write clear, concise and testable code that your team can understand, maintain and improve
Any of the following would be considered a plus
Good understanding of modern cloud environments - AWS, Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
You have experience with event streaming platforms and messaging brokers such as Kafka and RabbitMQ
Experience in the fintech industry
Why you should join SumUp
Opportunity to work with a truly global, multicultural team (we are 3200+ people from over 90 nationalities, spread across 4 continents).
28 days’ paid leave + bank holidays
Competitive salary package and virtual stock option programme
Health Insurance Cover with Vitality (including optical, dental)
Life Assurance cover with MetLife for 2 x your salary
Learning & development budget for attending conferences and external training
SumUp Corporate Pension Scheme
Break4Me - 1 month paid leave after 3 years of service
Job Application Tip
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