Engineering Manager in City of Westminster

What you'll do:

• Co-own product delivery: Define short- and long-term goals with Product, drive technical design and architecture discussions, and ensure timely, high-quality execution.
• Grow and support your team: Provide coaching, feedback, and structured performance development while fostering a collaborative, high-performing culture.
• Promote cross-functional alignment: Build strong collaboration across engineering, product, and business teams in a dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders.
• Drive operational excellence: Maintain highly available, complex backend systems while accelerating development velocity.
• Contribute hands-on: Review designs and code when needed, and help solve complex backend challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Co-own product delivery: Define goals with Product, drive technical design/architecture discussions, ensure timely, high-quality execution.
• Grow and support your team: Provide coaching, feedback, and structured performance development while fostering a collaborative, high-performing culture.
• Promote cross-functional alignment: Collaborate across engineering, product, and business teams with multiple stakeholders.
• Drive operational excellence: Maintain highly available, complex backend systems while accelerating development velocity.
• Contribute hands-on: Review designs and code when needed, help solve complex backend challenges.

Qualifications:

• You have deep backend engineering experience and hands-on work with distributed systems, APIs, and databases.
• Experience with Go, Kotlin, Python, or Swift and cloud-native environments (preferably AWS, Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.
• You've managed engineering teams in complex environments involving multiple technologies, priorities, and cross-functional collaboration — with at least 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager.
• You're a product-oriented engineering leader — comfortable working with a startup mindset and making pragmatic product and engineering trade-offs to drive impact.
• You're a clear, effective communicator — able to simplify technical topics and build alignment and trust across diverse stakeholders.
• You lead with empathy and clarity, giving constructive feedback, developing people, and guiding teams through scale or change.
• You're self-driven, flexible, and adaptable — comfortable shifting context and priorities with ease.
• You prioritise team success over individual silos, working to break down barriers and foster a culture of collaboration and shared ownership.

Why SumUp / Why you should join:

• Opportunity to work with a truly global, multicultural team from our central Covent.
• At SumUp, we're on a mission to bring merchants and consumers closer together and help local communities thrive.
• We're building a rewarding loyalty experience that connects people to the small businesses they love while enabling free transactions for our merchants.
• This role is a high-impact, key position that will challenge you to work at a quick pace and tackle a wide variety of topics and opportunities on a global scale.
• You will use your strategic thinking and original mindset, as well as immense drive, to help strategise and innovate within the Consumer Tribe, which is responsible for building and growing SumUp Local and closing the loop between consumers and merchants while collaborating with the rest of the organisation.
• If you're excited about consumer-facing products, loyalty platforms, and helping small businesses.

Location & Benefits:

• Garden location, wrapped in historic charm and modern flair. This involves an office-first setup.
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: Be part of a workplace that values and promotes diversity, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone's perspectives are respected and embraced.
• Enrolment onto our VSOP program: You will own a stake in SumUp's future success.
• Generous time off: Enjoy 28 days of paid leave, plus.