Software Engineer (Golang) - Merchant Protect

ABOUT SUMUP

SumUp enables businesses to get paid easily, process orders quickly, sell online instantly and manage their money more efficiently. We create the tools businesses need to make their business and their customer experience thrive. 

ABOUT THE TEAM  

As a fintech company, we provide various services including card payments and are certified by  regulatory bodies. Our internal Governance, Risk and Compliance team (GRC) ensures that we comply with regulatory rules and manage risks effectively. The Merchant Protect squad provides the necessary tools and services to support GRC in these efforts, including AML models, real-time transaction monitoring, and ML models to detect fraudulent patterns across our products.

As a member of a cross-functional team consisting of engineers, data scientists, and a product manager, you will focus on enabling ML models to run in production and automating the process. You will also work with graph databases to enable real-time decision-making based on the knowledge they provide. This is an opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and contribute to our efforts to provide secure and reliable services to our customers.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for implementing, maintaining and designing new software solutions in the Merchant Protect squad. You will challenge solutions and propose better approaches to current ones. 

The domain includes working with event streaming, data consistency and real time processing of huge amounts of data (transaction screening). 

Scaling solutions, solving data consistency problems and finding a way to incorporate both ML and software engineering in the same scope, solving common issues, are among the main challenges that you would tackle. 

YOU'LL BE GREAT FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU 

• Have strong backend engineering experience in agile large scale ecosystems (Golang)
• Have experience with transaction processing systems that have high availability/throughput
• Have architectural awareness for systems that are dynamically evolving and are built to last - microservices, messaging brokers, API design, DB solutions, networking, scalability, monitoring, logging
• Are an ambassador for communication and collaboration, embracing trust and respect to actively shape a healthy team and feedback culture
• Have a mature and business minded approach to your work
• Have a passion for clean, maintainable, and testable code

ANY OF THE FOLLOWING WOULD BE CONSIDERED A PLUS 

• Domain experience with risk & fraud prevention is a plus
• Experience with AI and ML
• Experience with working in a k8s native way
• Experience solving problems arising from using distributed systems
• Experience operating in a cloud environment, especially AWS

WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN SUMUP 

• You’ll play a key role in a scale-up that in turn is part of a truly global team of 3000+ people from 60+ countries, spread across 4 continents.
• You'll have the opportunity to make an impact irrespective of your job description. You'll have the space to drive your career and take ownership of projects.
• You’ll receive 25 days’ paid leave, increasing with tenure, and paid vacation for certain occasions. You’d enjoy a paid 1 month Sabbatical vacation every 3 years. 
• You’ll receive an individual learning budget and can take 10 days paid educational leave to expand your skillset. You'll have access to hackathons.
• You'd enjoy other great benefits such as additional health and life insurance; funded therapy & coaching sessions with licensed psychotherapists; co-sponsored Multisport card; Child birth/adoption bonus; free shuttle buses from Joliot-Curie metro station; a long list of discounts; attractive referral programme; monthly budget for food vouchers and a variety of flexible benefits (re:benefit platform), and more. 

OUR COMMITMENT

We believe in the everyday hero.

Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we create powerful, easy-to-use financial solutions to help them run their businesses. With a founder’s mentality and a 'team-first’ attitude, our diverse teams across Europe, South America and the United States work together to ensure that the small business owners we partner with can be successful doing what they love. 

SumUp is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. SumUp does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, colour, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other basis protected by applicable laws or prohibited by company policy. SumUp also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.

SumUp will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate.

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