Tech Lead, Software Engineering - Boulder, United States - $123,500 to $148,000

Tech Lead, Software Engineering - Boulder, United States

At SumUp, small business owners are at the heart of everything we do. That’s why we create powerful, easy-to-use financial solutions to help them run their businesses. With merchants in over 31 countries using SumUp to accept payments, we’re building the first-ever global card acceptance brand. Using a founder’s mentality and a “team-first” attitude, our teams across Europe, South America, and the United States work together to ensure that small business owners can be successful doing what they love.

As a Tech Lead on the US engineering team, you will be part of building a new engineering organization from the very early stages. Our goal is to make SumUp the #1 way for small businesses to accept payments in the US. This is a highly collaborative role. The ideal candidate will be able to work closely with a wide variety of stakeholders, technical and non-technical, across several teams (and timezones).

You will:

  • Work directly with Product Managers, Engineers, and Engineering Managers from across SumUp, while maintaining ownership and independence of our technical projects in the US
  • Write clean, maintainable, peer-reviewed code, which other engineers will use as a standard for excellence
  • Technically lead several diverse engineering projects, ranging from hardware to web apps, and everything in between
  • Guide the development, deployment, and maintenance of a distributed architecture
  • Advocate for quality code, durability, and technical debt reduction, working directly with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and others
  • Revamp services that have outlasted their original implementations, through refactoring, migration, and rethinking of architectural design
  • Multiply the effectiveness of our engineers and engineering systems with processes that allow us to ship quicker, fail faster, and isolate the blast radius of changes

You have:

  • A curious, passionate, and growth-oriented mindset about technology
  • Led impactful engineering projects at a non-trivial scale
  • A desire to teach, improve, and force multiply the strengths of engineers around you
  • Experience working with one or more of Ruby, Golang, Elixir/Erlang
  • Experience with micro-services based architecture
  • 5+ years experience leading engineering projects

Bonus points for:

  • Familiarity with React
  • Experience building and deploying to cloud infrastructure

Some of our technology:

  • Erlang/Elixir, Phoenix
  • Ruby, Rails
  • Golang
  • Postgres
  • Kubernetes

More info:

  • SumUp is a welcoming community of more than 2,000 people from over 52 nationalities
  • Startup environment and small, cross-functional teams
  • 50% employer-paid Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance, and company-paid life insurance
  • FSA & 401K Retirement Plan (up to 3.5% employer matching when you elect to contribute up to 6%)
  • Paid vacation and holidays immediately available upon hire
  • Ongoing access to professional development tools, job training, and industry conferences
  • Free on-site refreshments, snacks (fruits, cereals, nuts, etc.), and team meals
  • Fun company outings, team events, birthday lunches, yoga, happy hours, hikes, etc.

Salary range: $123,500 to $148,000
Position on remote work: We have a great office in Boulder, Colorado but encouraging people from all over the US to apply!

About the interview process

Initial phone screening from recruiter followed by a zoom call with the Engineering manager. If all goes well we will send you a coding challenge for you to complete in your language of choice and then a final call with a stakeholder - not technical.

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