Engineering Manager - Remote Opportunity at SumUp

About the Role

At SumUp, we are motivated by the purpose of leveling the playing field for small businesses. We empower small business owners by creating simple and affordable tools to manage payments, finance, and customer relationships. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a new team focused on building the analytical and commercial foundations for SumUp’s global sales channels. This Engineering Manager remote role offers a unique opportunity to oversee the consolidation of attribution and commission models into a unified, scalable product, ensuring a single, accurate foundation for both commercial insights and incentive operations.

What You'll Do

• Form and lead a new multidisciplinary squad from the ground up, working in close partnership with a Senior Product Manager.
• Map, assess, and unify existing attribution and commission models into a global, single, cohesive product structure.
• Partner with Data Engineering to migrate key logic from dbt/Snowflake into scalable backend services and APIs.
• Ensure technical direction aligns with business strategy, maintaining consistent definitions across attribution, commissions, and commercial reporting.
• Establish rigorous testing, monitoring, and audit capabilities to ensure data accuracy and transparency.
• Implement sophisticated logic, including multi-touch attribution and MMM in collaboration with our MarTech team, to quantify incremental impact across all marketing and sales channels.
• Manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment while providing hands-on technical and people leadership.

Requirements

• You have hands-on experience designing, implementing, and scaling web applications and APIs, preferably using Go.
• You have proven experience in people leadership and managing cross-functional teams of multidisciplinary engineers.
• You understand data engineering and analytical engineering principles.
• You have hands-on experience with data engineering lifecycle, key architectural components, and system design.
• You have a deep-dive, metrics-driven approach to problem-solving and can navigate complex legacy logic.
• You are adept at building credibility across technical, analytical, and commercial teams, including Revenue Analytics, MarTech, and Finance.
• You can balance technical excellence with the pragmatic needs of a growing business.

Nice to Have

• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS or Azure.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.
• Knowledge of financial services or payment systems.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work with SumUppers globally on large-scale fintech products used by millions of businesses worldwide.
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: be part of a workplace that values and promotes diversity.
• Enrolment onto our Virtual Stock Option programme: you will own a stake in SumUp’s future success.
• A dedicated annual L&D budget of €2000 for attending conferences and/or advancing your career through further education.
• A corporate pension scheme where we match up to 20% of your contributions.
• Generous time off: enjoy 28 days of paid leave plus public holidays and special leave days.
• Numerous other benefits such as Urban Sports Club subsidy, Kita placement assistance, subsidised office lunches.
• Break4me: 1-month sabbatical after 3 years of service.
• Referral Bonus: earn additional rewards by referring talented individuals to join the SumUp team.