Senior Software Engineer (Golang) - Card Acquiring

About the team

You’ll join a growing Payments team working on the next generation of SumUp’s payment capabilities. The team is building and evolving foundational systems that will improve the reliability, scalability and flexibility of our products.

This is an opportunity to work on a new and important area of our platform, where your technical decisions will help shape how SumUp supports millions of small businesses around the world. You’ll have the chance to contribute from an early stage, solve complex engineering challenges and see the impact of your work in real-world payment experiences.

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer in our own acquiring team, you’ll help build and evolve the systems that power SumUp’s payment experiences. You’ll work on foundational, greenfield components that improve the reliability and scalability of our platform while enabling us to deliver new payment capabilities to small businesses around the world. This is an opportunity to influence architectural decisions, shape engineering practices and work on highly critical infrastructure from the ground up.

What you’ll do

• Design and build core acquiring capabilities, including authorisation, clearing and settlement processing.

• Develop the APIs, data models and services that will form the foundation of our acquiring platform.

• Build reporting, back-office and operational tools for a reliable day-to-day acquiring operation.

• Ensure our systems meet card-scheme, security and compliance requirements.

• Create strong observability, monitoring and incident-response foundations for an always-on payments platform.

• Work closely with teams across Processing, Reconciliation, Risk, Compliance, Finance and Treasury.

• Contribute to architecture discussions and make sound technical decisions in an ambiguous, evolving domain.

• Take ownership of medium-to-large technical initiatives that span multiple teams.

• Identify and help prioritise technical debt, operational risks and opportunities to improve the platform.

• Support the growth of the team through mentoring, code reviews and shaping testing and on-call practices.

You’ll be great for this role if you have

• Solid programming experience, including with Golang, and a track record of building reliable backend systems.

• Experience building and consuming APIs in production environments.

• Understanding of software architecture, design principles, data modelling, API design and SOLID principles.

• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases; experience with PostgreSQL and Kafka is valuable.

• Practical experience with Docker, AWS and Kubernetes.

• A DevOps mindset and an interest in building, operating and improving the systems you own.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to investigate complex issues methodically.

• A collaborative approach and openness to feedback.

• A strong sense of ownership and accountability for your work.

It would be a great advantage if you have

• Experience with Elixir or another functional programming language.

• Experience with AWS Prometheus and Grafana.

• Experience in fintech, payments or another regulated domain.

• Knowledge of card schemes, acquiring, authorisation, clearing or settlement.

You do not need to know the acquiring domain already. What matters is your technical foundation, curiosity and willingness to learn. You will work alongside colleagues who are building this capability together, with plenty of room to ask questions and make an impact.