Senior Analytics Engineer - Run & Grow
SumUp is looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer for its Run & Grow Tribe of Tribes, which powers the systems, insights and experiences that keep millions of merchants engaged and growing. The company is moving from fragmented pipelines to a world-class data foundation built on stable business domains, trusted metrics and AI-ready data products. This is a greenfield opportunity to shape how data is owned, defined and built at scale, working from the Berlin office in an office-first setup.
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Responsibilities
- ▹Partner with squads across the tribe on event design and data contracts, maintaining staging pipelines and keeping domain outputs consistent, tested and discoverable
- ▹Model key business domains (merchant activity, product adoption, lifecycle events, risk scoring), building well-documented, quality-assured data products as the trusted source of truth
- ▹Build and maintain the insights layer on top of governed domains, producing reusable KPI models, funnels, cohorts and segmentations for self-serve use
- ▹Implement technical improvements including incremental processing strategies, performance optimisations and scalable data architecture
- ▹Contribute to SumUp's broader data domain strategy, helping establish durable ownership, consistent definitions and a shared catalogue of data products
Requirements
- ▹Strong, proven experience in analytics engineering or data engineering, building and maintaining production data systems
- ▹Expert-level SQL for complex transformations and query optimisation
- ▹Hands-on experience building layered data models in a modern data warehouse or lakehouse (e.g. Snowflake, Iceberg) and solid command of dbt, including testing, documentation and modelling conventions
- ▹Ability to think in terms of business domains, translating complex business logic into clean, durable, reusable data models
- ▹Comfort working across squads with Product Managers, Engineers, Analysts and Data Scientists
- ▹Deep care for data quality, trust and discoverability, with a proactive mindset around contracts, freshness, observability and failure scenarios
Soft skills
What we offer
- ▹Virtual Stock Option programme (stake in SumUp's future success)
- ▹Annual L&D budget of €2000 for individual development, conferences and further education
- ▹Corporate pension scheme matching up to 20% of contributions
- ▹28 days of paid leave plus public holidays and special leave days
- ▹Urban Sports Club subsidy, Kita placement assistance and subsidised office lunches
- ▹1-month sabbatical after 3 years of service (Break4me)
- ▹Referral bonus
About the company
SumUp is on a mission to empower small businesses across the globe by providing simple and affordable tools that allow them to thrive. Over 4 million businesses in 37 markets rely on SumUp as their financial partner to manage payments, finance and customer relationships. Its diverse team of over 3,000 SumUppers from over 90 nationalities is united by global collaboration and an innovative mindset. SumUp is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.