Job description
Engineering Manager - Verification
Company Overview
SumUp builds financial solutions for millions of small businesses worldwide. Our Identity Lifecycle mission powers the systems that determine who can access those solutions, ensuring every merchant we onboard is verified accurately, compliantly, and at scale.
Job Summary
As Engineering Manager for Verification, you will lead the squad responsible for identity checks across all of SumUp's markets. This is a high-impact opportunity to guide a team running high-stakes workstreams across KYC and a wide range of regulatory environments, in a domain that is both technically complex and central to the customer journey.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the Verification Squad as its engineering leader, creating focus and momentum by removing bottlenecks, managing cross-team dependencies, and helping engineers navigate complexity across legacy systems and evolving processes.
- Partner closely with Product, Compliance, and Operations to translate complex cross-market KYC and KYB requirements into clear engineering outcomes.
- Drive the technical and organisational improvements that strengthen the squad over time.
- Shape roadmap priorities alongside the PM, ensuring trade-offs are well understood.
- Maintain high standards for how verification systems are built and operated.
- Develop engineers with intention through regular 1:1s, direct feedback, and deliberate stretch opportunities.
Requirements / Qualifications
- Proven track record of leading engineering teams through technical transformation, including large-scale migrations and legacy modernisation.
- Strong technical depth in backend technologies, particularly Go and API/integration architecture.
- Hands-on experience with observability, CI/CD, and testing practices.
- Experience (or an appetite to learn) in KYC/KYB regulatory environments and understanding of frameworks like eIDAS.
- Ability to combine strategic thinking with hands-on technical credibility.
- Solid people leader skills: building psychologically safe, inclusive, and high-performing teams.
Location
Berlin, Germany. Office-first setup.
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- Virtual Stock Option programme.
- Annual L&D budget of €2000.
- Corporate pension scheme (match up to 20%).
- 28 days of paid leave plus public holidays.
- Urban Sports Club subsidy and Kita placement assistance.
- 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.
