A Backend Engineer role in SumUp's Global Bank tribe, Transfers Gateway squad (Vilnius office), building production money-movement services that connect internal systems to external financial networks across the EU and UK. The tech stack is Go, AWS, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes, with strong observability and an ownership-driven 'build it, run it, improve it' culture.
Responsibilities
- ▹Build and maintain production money movement backend services with strong observability
- ▹Own and deliver well-defined tasks and features within the team's domain
- ▹Contribute to technical design and implementation following architectural patterns
- ▹Improve service reliability by writing tests and enhancing monitoring
- ▹Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews
- ▹Collaborate with Product, QA, and engineers to deliver transfer and banking capabilities
Requirements
- ▹Experience building backend services in a modern environment and supporting them in production
- ▹Ability to implement a solution independently from a clearly defined problem
- ▹Comfortable with cloud-based systems, containerized workloads, and automated delivery pipelines
- ▹Experience writing and maintaining automated tests with care for code quality
- ▹Understanding of system architecture, data modelling, and API design fundamentals
- ▹Clear communication and effective collaboration with stakeholders
Nice to have
- ▹Exposure to banking, payments, or financial systems in regulated environments
- ▹Experience supporting systems with production traffic and incident response
- ▹Use of AI-assisted tools to improve development speed, learning, or code quality
Soft skills
Clear communicationCollaborationOwnership mindsetCuriosity about the broader system and productEagerness to learn
What we offer
- ▹Part of a truly global team
Languages: angol