ABOUT THE PAYMENTS TRIBE
SumUp empowers small businesses with easy-to-use financial tools to help them succeed. From payment processing to online stores, we aim to support millions of merchants globally.
The Payments Tribe (60 people within the global engineering team of 700+), is at the core of SumUp’s global business, building and maintaining the systems that process billions of transactions annually for millions of merchants across 36+ countries.
We are a cross-functional autonomous team of engineers, product managers and data analysts who design, build, and maintain cutting-edge solutions. We focus on event-driven microservices architecture, scalability, and high availability.
ABOUT THE ROLE
This role provides opportunities to work on diverse challenges while being guided by experienced mentors, helping you grow into a well-rounded software engineer. You’ll join an office-first culture, where we value in-person collaboration.
You'll learn to write clean, maintainable, and testable code, build scalable systems, enhance software quality, troubleshoot and debug, focus on security and reliability, support DevOps practices, and create clear documentation among others.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- Academic experience, personal projects or professional experience in backend programming, preferably with Golang or Java (but others are ok, too: Python/JS/ C++/Elixir/Ruby, etc).
- Familiarity with SQL and/or NoSQL storages such as CockroachDB, PostgreSQL or Kafka.
- Exposure to RESTful APIs development and consumption.
- Eagerness to gain foundational understanding of system architecture, software design principles, and data modeling.
- Ability to identify and address simple code inefficiencies with minimal guidance.
- Motivated to solve software engineering problems that deliver business value.
- A passion for learning and improving technical skills through collaboration and feedback.
- Full-time commitment - a minimum of 6hrs/day availability (30 hrs per week), ideally 8hrs/day (40 hours a week)
WHY JOIN US
- You’ll play a key role in a scale-up that is part of a truly global team of 3000+ people from 60+ countries, spread across 4 continents.
- You’ll have the opportunity to make an impact irrespective of your job description. You’ll have the space to drive your career and take ownership of projects.
- You’ll receive 25 days paid leave, increasing with tenure and paid vacation for certain occasions. Additionally, there’s a paid 1-month Sabbatical vacation every 3 years at SumUp.
- You’ll receive an individual learning budget of 2,000 EUR annually and can take 10 days of paid educational leave to expand your skillset.
- You’ll be able to join monthly hackdays, annual hackweeks (the last 3 happened in Albania, Bulgaria and Portugal) and local social events.
- You’d enjoy other great benefits such as additional health and life insurance, a co-sponsored Multisport card, free shuttle buses from Joliot-Curie metro station, monthly budget for food and other benefits, access to a general referrals programme, and many more.
-- Please apply with a CV/Linkedin profile and a GitHub repo with your favorite projects to help us understand more about your interests, skills and motivation. --
DISCOVER MORE ABOUT US
2024 Hackweek
Life inside SumUp Sofia
Why do we hack
More About SumUp
We believe in the everyday hero.
Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we create powerful, easy-to-use financial solutions to 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.
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.
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What We Do
SumUp believes that every business should have access to affordable, easy-to-use financial solutions, no matter their size. That’s why more than 3 million businesses worldwide rely on SumUp to run their business. What started out as one card reader has now turned into a range of payment hardware, banking solutions, marketing, and loyalty tools, invoicing, and so much more. From sales and marketing to product and engineering, our cross-functional US team works together to ensure that small business owners can be successful doing what they love.
Why Work With Us
SumUp USA is part of the global SumUp organization that stretches across multiple continents from Berlin to Sao Paulo. Our teams are multicultural, have a collaborative mindset and bold goals. Join our mission if you want to become part of the success story and help empower over 3 million merchants using SumUp already!
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