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Vp Technology (m/f)

Created on 13-09-2017
Location Berlin

Description

About SumUp

We are the leading mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) company in Europe, with major offices in Berlin, Sofia, and São Paulo comprising more than 500 people. We started out five years ago and built our payment service from scratch to shake up the industry and wake up the entrepreneur within everyone. We created a unique device that pairs with the smartphone in your pocket, allowing small merchants to accept card payments anywhere. Beyond our original hardware, mobile and web apps, we have gone on to develop a suite of APIs and SDKs for integrating SumUp payments into other apps and services. We recently launched a brand new contactless device, which makes paying by card easier than ever before.

Today, hundreds of thousands of small businesses in 16 countries around the world rely on SumUp to get paid. But we won’t stop there. By the end of the year SumUp will double its number of markets, remaining the mPOS player operating in the greatest number of countries worldwide. If you think you've got what it takes to disrupt the payments industry — join us.


Your impact at SumUp

As part of our vision to become a truly global IT organization, we have started to build out local, autonomous, cross-functional teams that can take an aspect of our product and perfect it from concept to execution. As VP of Technology in Berlin, you will oversee IT staff from several teams strategic to SumUp's success, for instance Merchant Acquisition (acquisition on all channels, ecommerce and onboarding experience) and Integrations/B2B (integrations with 3rd parties, public APIs/SDKs, developer tools/documentation).

You will help build and develop these teams, from partnering with tech leads during the hiring process to helping shape their technical decisions in the context of our overall software system. As our team in Berlin grows, you will also help establish additional teams and redistribute team members. Beyond these responsibilities, you will play a key role in contributing to our overall technical vision and helping build a great engineering community in Berlin.


Your role and responsibilities

  • Broadly oversee all engineers and their activities among teams located in Berlin (3+ teams with 10+ engineers, with plans to more than double the number of engineers within the next year). 
  • Play a key role in defining and executing SumUp's technical vision alongside your counterparts in Sofia and São Paulo. 
  • Partner closely with Product and the rest of the Engineering organization to define the product and technical roadmaps. 
  • Become deeply knowledgable about SumUp's software system on a technical level in order to onboard new joiners and be the reference point in the Berlin office for "the full picture". 
  • Participate in hiring processes of local tech managers, including interviews, technical assessments, and refining our hiring and recruitment processes. 
  • Support tech managers based in other locations with managing members of their team who are located in Berlin (specifically QA, Ops, and Platform developers). 
  • Mentor local tech leads and help them grow their teams both personally and professionally. 
  • Help organize meetups and hackathons at our Berlin location to improve our visibility in the local tech scene. 
  • Attract top technical talent by supporting our HR and Marketing teams in crafting a compelling Engineering brand. 
  • Travel to SumUp's offices in Bulgaria and Brazil to learn how our global IT organization works and synchronize efforts accross locations. 
  • Report directly to the CTO as part of the senior engineering management team. 


Our tech

  • We craft the merchant's experience with our service end-to-end: from our proprietary hardware to our payments services, mobile apps, and web applications. This means we have a wide range of technical challenges before us, especially as our business grows year over year. 
  • Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Erlang, C, iOS (Objective-C, Swift), Android (Java, Kotlin), Javascript (Node, React) Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Elm, soon Kafka and Docker. 
  • Tools: AWS, Github, Jenkins, Graylog, Kibana, Consul. 
  • Principles: Service-oriented architecture, microservices, internal open-source culture, cross-functional teams (comprising platform, web, QA, design, and product). 


REQUIREMENTS

Your profile

  • You are experienced with leading, coaching and mentoring engineering managers. 
  • You have deep expertise in software development practices and programming. 
  • You have hands-on experience in building large software systems, and can dive into our tech if needed. 
  • You love attracting, interviewing, and growing people. 
  • You are positive, pragmatic, and an excellent communicator. 
  • You are passionate about building a great engineering community and making it known to the outside world. 
  • You have a strong product mindset and care about creating a great experience for our merchants. 
  • You're fluent in English and willing to travel as part of our global organization. 
  • Experience working in an international, distributed team is a plus. 


BENEFITS

What we offer

  • Responsibility and empowerment from day one. 
  • Competitive compensation and education budget. 
  • Visa and relocation support for a smooth transition to living and working in Berlin. 
  • Opportunity to join our weekly developer events, like Lunch & Learn and Hack Fridays. 
  • Close, welcoming, and international community of 130 people from over 30 countries; we get together regularly for brunches, cocktail nights, football, yoga, German classes, and office parties. 
  • At least one off-site every year, where the tech teams from Berlin, Sofia, and São Paulo gather to hack together. In the past we've gone to Bulgaria and Greece. 
  • Be part of one of Berlin's most exciting startups, on a mission to take over the world.
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