(Senior) Backend Engineer (Golang) - Bank

The role

You will design and build a unified global banking platform and transform monolithic services into decoupled, scalable services. You will work with a cloud-native stack including Go, AWS, Kafka, and Kubernetes.

What you will do

• Collaborate with a global team to design and build a unified global banking platform.
• Transform monolithic services into decoupled, highly scalable, region-agnostic, unified global bank services.
• Design, implement, and iteratively develop highly available backend services.
• Maintain and improve core services utilizing a modern, cloud-native technology stack.
• Improve test coverage for existing services.
• Drive the end-to-end delivery of changes, including testing, observability, and monitoring.
• Shape and continuously improve engineering culture by sharing ideas and refining best practices.

Required qualifications

• Solid programming experience in Golang.
• Advanced understanding of developing and maintaining distributed and event-driven systems.
• Solid experience with event streaming platforms and messaging brokers such as Kafka.
• Experience with modern cloud technologies like AWS.
• Experience with containerization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Comfortable working with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experienced with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions or ArgoCD.
• Dedicated to writing clear, maintainable, and testable code.

Nice to have

• Experience with monitoring tools - Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb
• Experience in the fintech industry

Benefits

• Enrolment onto our Virtual Stock Option programme
• 25 days of paid leave, plus special holidays
• health insurance through Gjensidige
• life & accidental coverage from Ergo
• gym membership allowance
• regular training, mentorship programs, SumUp University cohort and a yearly learning budget (2,000 EUR)
• Hack Days every second Friday, and entire global Hack Weeks
• 1-month sabbatical after 3 years of service
• Referral Bonus

About the company

SumUp is on a mission to empower small businesses around the world with simple, affordable tools. It is a global team of 3,000+ people from over 90 nationalities.