Engineering Manager (Data Streaming)

About the team:

You’ll be joining the Data Platform Team, which is responsible for building the next-generation data infrastructure to support SumUp's data-driven approach, helping millions of businesses thrive. Our goal is to develop reusable tools that enable automated and scalable infrastructure creation for distributed domains. Our team consists of three product-focused subteams:

• Data Streaming: Ensures a highly reliable and secure Kafka and Stream Processing Infrastructure.

• Data Movement: Manages our Data Ingestion and Extraction infrastructure for various data storage solutions.

• Data Gateway: Oversees our Storage and Access Layers, enabling SumUppers to access diverse data needs.

As we guide SumUp toward a self-service, scalable infrastructure, your leadership will be instrumental in aligning technical vision with business goals, fostering collaboration across diverse teams, and managing relationships with stakeholders at all levels. Your ability to adapt communication to different audiences – from technical teams to senior leadership – will ensure the success of data initiatives that empower engineers, analysts, and data scientists to work independently with data resources.

What you’ll do:

• Lead with impact: Drive technical discussions and facilitate the collection of requirements with Backend, Data, Business, and Leadership teams for real-time data use cases.

• Stakeholder management: Act as a bridge between engineering teams, product stakeholders, and leadership, ensuring clear communication, alignment of priorities, and timely execution of initiatives.

• Technical leadership: Provide technical direction and mentorship to team members while contributing hands-on to the next phase of Kafka and Streaming Infrastructure development.

• Strategic decision-making: Guide adoption of Kafka and Stream Processing technologies across multiple tribes and squads, driving company-wide impact.

• Quality assurance and reliability: Ensure high-quality, reliable infrastructure services by defining and monitoring SLAs, and implementing best practices.

• Career development: Foster a collaborative, growth-oriented environment by supporting team members in building their skills and achieving their career goals.

• Deliver results: Efficiently guide projects through all phases, from Proof-of-Concept to full-scale Production.

You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have:

• Proven engineering leadership experience, including managing technical teams and mentoring engineers.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, communicate with leadership, and adapt messaging to technical and non-technical audiences.

• Hands-on experience maintaining critical data infrastructure, particularly Kafka and stream processing services such as Flink, Spark, or other stateful distributed systems.

• Proficiency in at least one of our primary programming languages: Go, Python, or Java.

• Familiarity with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Honeycomb) to ensure system reliability and performance.

• Experience implementing SRE principles.

• A strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and networking (AWS or GCP).

Why you should join SumUp:

🌍 Opportunity to work with SumUppers globally on large-scale fintech products used by millions of businesses worldwide, from our Berlin office. This involves an office-first setup.

🌈 Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: Be part of a workplace that values and promotes diversity, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone's perspectives are respected and embraced

📚 A dedicated annual L&D budget of €2,000 for attending conferences and/or advancing your career through further education.

🚀 Enrolment onto our VSOP program: You will own a stake in SumUp’s future success

💶 A corporate pension scheme where we match up to 20% of your contributions

🔄 30 Days Sabbatical: Enjoy the unique opportunity to take a well-deserved break with our 30 days sabbatical benefit after completing 3 years of employment with SumUp.

🔗 Referral Bonus: Earn additional rewards by referring talented individuals to join the SumUp team.

🚵🏾‍♂️ Numerous other benefits such as Urban Sports Club subsidy, Kita placement assistance, relocation assistance, subsidised office lunches.

About us:

SumUp is a leading financial technology company, founded in 2012 with the goal of empowering small businesses around the globe. We’re the financial partner of choice for more than 4 million merchants in over 35 markets. We collectively build, plan and fine-tune the technology that drives SumUp and empowers small businesses around the world.

We believe in the everyday hero. Those who have the courage to follow their passion and who have the strength and determination to realise their dreams. Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we're creating powerful, easy-to-use financial solutions to help them run their business. With a founders mentality and a 'team-first attitude' our diverse teams across Europe, South America, and the United States work together to ensure that small business owners 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.