Engineering Manager - Verification

About the role

As Engineering Manager for Verification, you will lead the squad responsible for identity checks across all of SumUp's markets. This is a high-impact opportunity to guide a team running high-stakes workstreams across KYC and a wide range of regulatory environments, in a domain that is both technically complex and central to the customer journey. The role calls for strong technical depth and sound engineering judgment, enabling you to lead delivery with confidence while shaping the architecture decisions that will define how verification works at SumUp for years to come.

What you'll do

• Lead the Verification Squad as its engineering leader, creating focus and momentum by removing bottlenecks, managing cross-team dependencies, and helping engineers navigate complexity across legacy systems and evolving processes.
• Partner closely with Product, Compliance, and Operations to translate complex cross-market KYC and KYB requirements into clear engineering outcomes, identifying buildability considerations and regulatory risks early.
• Drive the technical and organisational improvements that strengthen the squad over time, reducing legacy overhead, improving tooling, and fostering greater shared ownership and sustainable delivery practices.
• Shape roadmap priorities alongside the PM, ensuring trade-offs are well understood and that compliance requirements and AI-influenced features are properly accounted for.
• Maintain high standards for how verification systems are built and operated, ensuring flows are observable, failures are controlled, and AI-driven components meet the same bar for reliability, traceability, and auditability.
• Develop engineers with intention through regular 1:1s, direct feedback, and deliberate stretch opportunities, building a team with strong technical and product judgment.

What you'll need

• Proven track record of leading engineering teams through technical transformation, including large-scale migrations and legacy modernisation.
• Strong technical depth in backend technologies, particularly Go and API/integration architecture, with hands-on experience in observability, CI/CD, and testing practices.
• Experience (or appetite to learn) in KYC/KYB regulatory environments and understanding of how frameworks like eIDAS interact with product and engineering decisions.
• Strategic thinking combined with hands-on technical credibility, and the ability to communicate with clarity, empathy, and transparency across technical and non-technical audiences.
• A solid people leader who develops high performers, addresses underperformance directly and fairly, and builds psychologically safe, inclusive, high-performing teams.

What they offer

• Virtual Stock Option programme
• Annual L&D budget of €2,000 for conferences or further education
• Corporate pension scheme with up to 20% contribution matching
• 28 days paid leave plus public holidays and special leave days
• Urban Sports Club subsidy, Kita placement assistance, subsidised office lunches
• 1-month sabbatical (Break4me) after 3 years of service