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.

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 as any other part of the system.
• 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

• A 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, and hands-on experience with 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 ability to communicate with clarity, empathy, and transparency across both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven people leadership skills: developing high performers, addressing underperformance directly and fairly, and building psychologically safe, inclusive, high-performing teams.

What they offer

• Virtual Stock Option programme to own a stake in SumUp's future success.
• Annual L&D budget of EUR 2,000 for conferences and further education.
• Corporate pension scheme with up to 20% employer match on contributions.
• 28 days of paid leave plus public holidays and special leave days.
• Urban Sports Club subsidy, Kita placement assistance, subsidised office lunches.
• 1-month sabbatical after 3 years of service and referral bonus programme.