Job description
Engineering Manager
Company Overview
At SumUp, we’re on a mission to empower small businesses around the world with simple, affordable tools to help them start, run, and grow. More than 4 million merchants across 36 markets trust us as their financial partner — and we’re just getting started.
Job Summary
This is a high-impact engineering leadership role within our Lifecycle Tribe, with a primary mandate to build and evolve a world-class, high-performing website that is central to how merchants discover, evaluate, and start using SumUp. You’ll lead cross-functional teams working on customer-facing platforms and digital experiences.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and Develop Teams: Lead, mentor, and grow high-performing engineering squads and a shared Quality team.
- Drive Platform Evolution: Oversee ongoing modernization and transformation initiatives that enhance SumUp’s web and digital capabilities.
- Elevate Technical Excellence: Define and drive the technical direction for our web and purchase architectures.
- Build a Data-Informed Culture: Introduce and operationalise measurement frameworks for engineering effectiveness using metrics like DORA.
- Champion Performance: Manage engineering performance with clarity and empathy.
- Collaborate and Align: Build high-trust, effective collaboration with cross-functional partners, including Product, Marketing, Design, and Platform teams.
Requirements / Qualifications
- Experience: 8-12 years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years managing multiple engineering squads or teams.
- Technical Depth: Strong technical background in modern web technologies and architecture, including Go, React, Next.js, Typescript, microservices, and APIs.
- Migration Leadership: Demonstrated success leading large-scale migration projects or complex technical transformations.
- Operational Excellence: Proven experience in driving engineering and operational excellence, including on-call processes, observability, testing, and CI/CD.
- People Leadership: A track record of developing, mentoring, and managing engineers and tech leads.
- Communication: Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Mindset: A strategic yet hands-on leader who thrives in ambiguity.
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct experience with CMS platforms (like Builder.io or Contentful) and managing web infrastructure at scale.
- Background in Growth, Lifecycle, or e-commerce domains.
- Understanding of SEO, personalisation, and experimentation frameworks.
Location
Berlin, Berlin, Germany (On-site)
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- Virtual Stock Option programme.
- Annual L&D budget of €2000.
- Corporate pension scheme (up to 20% match).
- 28 days of paid leave plus public holidays.
- Urban Sports Club subsidy, Kita placement assistance, subsidised office lunches.
- 1-month sabbatical after 3 years of service.
Equal Opportunity Statement
SumUp is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, committed to building a safe, respectful, and diverse workplace where everyone can thrive.
