Software Engineering Manager

At SumUp, we believe small merchants are the heartbeat of our communities. By joining our Brazil Engineering Team (Payments BR Tribe), you’ll help shape solutions that directly impact how millions of merchants receive and manage their money.

As a key member of the our Engineering tribe, you’ll help shape and deliver innovative products that make a real difference for our merchants, especially in Brazil. Our banking and payments services power critical financial operations for merchants across the country. These systems operate at high scale, processing large volumes of transactions daily and directly impacting merchants’ cash flow and overall experience. As the ecosystem grows in complexity and adoption, the need for stronger reliability, resilience, and architectural evolution becomes even more critical. You’ll join a global, autonomous, cross-functional team committed to turning bold ideas into seamless, high-impact solutions.

As an Engineering Manager, you will navigate the complexities of scaling high-availability systems that handle millions of transactions while steering your teams through a high-impact transition from local solutions to a unified global architecture. If you are driven by the challenge of turning technical debt into operational excellence and building the "number one bank" for small businesses, this is your next chapter. 

What You’ll Do

• Lead at Scale: Direct two high-performing squads of 4 to 7 engineers each, focusing on building trust and autonomy within a newly formed team. You will oversee the development of critical banking services where improving reliability and scalability is a constant priority.
• Establish Ownership: Actively establish clear ownership and accountability across your squads, ensuring every engineer understands their impact on the platform's availability and peak performance goals.
• Strategic Partnership: Work in close collaboration with the Product Manager to define OKRs and navigate complex cross-tribe dependencies, ensuring the roadmap and deliveries are perfectly aligned with business goals.
• Technical Excellence: Actively participate in technical decisions, conduct code reviews, and define standards for operational excellence to ensure a top-tier merchant experience.
• Global Convergence: Spearhead the migration and convergence of our local Brazilian platforms into a global architecture, ensuring our technology scales with our international ambitions and impacts millions of users worldwide.
• Quality & Culture: Guarantee product quality with a s