Senior Backend Engineer (NodeJS) - Merchant Growth

Salary Competitive

We believe in the everyday hero. Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we're creating tools that help them run their businesses. 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 the small business owners we partner with can be successful doing what they love.


Senior Backend Engineer (NodeJS)

 Our team based in Copenhagen is looking for a Backend Engineer. In this role, you’ll contribute to our ambitious goals by making it extremely simple for merchants all over the world to use our invoicing and accounting products. You’ll work on our core services powering multiple client applications that help small businesses thrive. You’ll be owning and managing the development life cycle from coding and testing to deploying into production and observing the value delivered to customers. A few of the technologies we're leveraging at Debitoor/SumUp include JavaScript, Node.js, MongoDB, Rabbitmq, AWS, Unit/Integration testing (mocha, sinon, chai, nock), RESTful Web API, OpenAPI, Git, GitHub, Heroku, Docker, CircleCI.

What you’ll do

  •   Work in a cross-functional team and ship code daily.

  •   Collaborate with product managers and the support team to build new features for our users to help them grow their businesses.

  •   Design easy to use APIs that make sense.

  •   Develop robust and maintainable microservices.

  •   Keep existing microservices up to date in a changing environment.

  •   Refine the full stack, from CI/CD tooling, to test automation, building features, running experiments, and monitoring and operations.

  •   Push projects forward, while validating and communicating your ideas with the team.

  •   Help us develop our open-source projects and culture.

  •   Assist in hiring and recruiting efforts to continue to build the team.

You’ll be great for this role if

  •   You love coding, but also take the time to reflect on the benefits and drawbacks of your tools, be they frameworks, languages or processes.

  •   You strive for maintainable and clean code, but also know when to be pragmatic and make your "shortcuts" easy to delete in a crunch.

  •   You know what to test, why to test it, and how to write meaningful tests.

  •   You have a proactive attitude and a product mindset − you own what you build.

  •   Technology excites you and you strive to learn something on a daily basis.

  •   You contribute to open source projects.

  •   You care deeply about automation and CI/CD

Why you should join SumUp

  •   You’ll be working on a product with worldwide reach to millions of customers in 50+ countries in a fast growing business group

  •   We have a beautiful office location in central Copenhagen

  •   We have a state-of-the-art software development process and a DNA geared on shipping great software products

  •   You’ll join a passionate and talented group of people, united by a shared mission

About SumUp

We believe in the everyday hero.

Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we're creating tools that help them run their businesses. 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 the small business owners we partner with 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.

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Working at
SumUp

We believe in the everyday hero Those who have the courage to follow their passion and the strength and determination to realize their dreams. We believe that anyone should be able to start their own business. This is why we provide small businesses with powerful tools to run their business and to engage with their customers. We do so with genuine care for our merchants and love for our products. By taking the hassle out of getting paid, we enable small business owners to focus on what they love to do. Their success is our success. The Company SumUp is a global financial technology company and the leading mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) company in Europe. Thanks to SumUp, small merchants around the world are able to accept card payments anywhere their business takes them. SumUp technology makes accepting payments simple so merchants can focus on what they do best, whether they’re brewing coffee or fixing cars. While traditional POS offerings are costly and bureaucratically complex for small businesses to attain, SumUp products are designed to be intuitive and easy-to-use, from paperless onboarding to seamless transactions. Since its launch, SumUp has earned an impressive global reach and expanded into 31 countries, including Germany, the U.S., and Brazil. SumUp continues to grow and is backed by TPG, Bain Capital Credit, Groupon, Holtzbrinck Ventures, and other renowned venture capital investors. Beyond the original hardware, mobile, and web apps, SumUp has also developed a suite of APIs and SDKs for integrating SumUp payment into other apps and services. Thanks to these offerings, over two million small businesses around the world rely on SumUp to simply get paid.

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