Engineering Manager - Backend, Product & Growth Leader

SumUp; City of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - GBP 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A digital payment solutions company in London seeks an Engineering Manager to co-own product delivery and grow a robust engineering team. Ideal candidates will have extensive backend experience and demonstrated success in a leadership role. You will work in a fast-paced environment, using strategic thinking to drive innovation and collaboration across functions. This position offers competitive benefits and the opportunity to influence the future of small businesses in the UK.

Benefits

Diversity and Inclusion commitment

Generous time off

Health cover

Retirement scheme

Life insurance

Referral Bonus

Qualifications

• Deep backend engineering experience and hands-on work with distributed systems.
• Managed engineering teams with at least 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager.
• Comfortable working with a startup mindset and making product and engineering trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Define short- and long-term goals with Product and drive technical discussions.
• Provide coaching and feedback while fostering a collaborative culture.
• Build strong collaboration across engineering, product, and business teams.

Skills

Backend engineering experience

Experience with APIs

Experience with databases

Experience with cloud-native environments

Effective communication

Leadership

Tools

Go

Kotlin

Python

Swift

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

A digital payment solutions company in London seeks an Engineering Manager to co-own product delivery and grow a robust engineering team. Ideal candidates will have extensive backend experience and demonstrated success in a leadership role. You will work in a fast-paced environment, using strategic thinking to drive innovation and collaboration across functions. This position offers competitive benefits and the opportunity to influence the future of small businesses in the UK.