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Engineering Manager - Payments Tribe

Backend Developer • Lead • Vor Ort • Vollzeit • 📍 Sofia

An Engineering Manager role leading a team within SumUp's Payments Tribe (Sofia, office-first), the foundational product powering secure, scalable card-present and card-not-present payment processing across 36+ markets. The role partners with Product and Business to scale the backend systems behind SumUp's global payments engine processing millions of transactions daily.

Stack

AWS Go

Responsibilities

▹Shape technical direction as part of the Payments leadership team and influence long-term strategy
▹Take ownership of technical delivery: define goals, drive design and architecture, ensure quality execution
▹Grow and support your team with coaching, feedback, and structured performance development
▹Promote cross-functional alignment across engineering, product, and business teams
▹Manage shifting priorities and context-switching across multiple teams or domains
▹Contribute hands-on by reviewing designs and code and solving complex backend challenges

Requirements

▹Deep backend engineering experience with distributed systems, APIs, and databases
▹Experience managing engineering teams in complex, multi-technology environments, ideally fintech
▹Ability to manage multiple domains or teams with different focus areas
▹Clear, effective communicator able to simplify technical topics and build alignment
▹Data- and metrics-driven decision-making to monitor system health and improve delivery
▹Empathetic, clear leadership developing people through scale or change

Nice to have

▹Experience with Go and cloud-native environments (preferably AWS)

Soft skills

Empathetic and clear leadershipEffective communication and alignment buildingCross-functional collaborationManaging context-switching and shifting prioritiesPrioritising team success over individual silos

What we offer

▹Collaborate with SumUppers worldwide on large-scale fintech products from the Sofia office (office-first)

Languages: angol