Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager – Consumer Systems

This is a high-impact Engineering Manager role where you'll lead a cross-functional team of backend, i OS, and Android engineers building the systems and experiences that power Sum Up Consumer.

You'll be responsible for the reliability, quality, and pace of delivery across features that consumers interact with every day while growing a team that takes real ownership of what they ship.

You'll work closely with Product and Design to turn ambitious ideas into production-grade products, and you'll help shape the technical direction of a consumer experience that's still defining itself.

This is a role for someone who stays close enough to the technology to make good calls, and cares enough about people to make the team genuinely good at what they do.

Responsibilities

• Lead and build a high-performing team by coaching, mentoring, and supporting engineers in their growth and development.
• Stay hands-on with technology—contribute to system design, review code, and guide technical decisions to ensure high-quality, scalable solutions.
• Partner closely with Product and Design to define goals, translate user needs into technical solutions, and deliver impactful features.
• Drive execution and delivery, balancing speed and quality while ensuring reliable and scalable backend systems.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and business teams to align priorities and make thoughtful trade-offs.
• Shape the engineering culture by promoting best practices, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Advocate for the user, ensuring we build products that truly improve the experience for local merchants and consumers.

Qualifications

• A strong backend or mobile engineering background, with hands-on experience building distributed systems, APIs, and scalable services.
• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager (2+ years) with a track record of leading, mentoring, and growing high-performing engineering teams.
• A hands-on mindset—you enjoy staying close to the code, contributing to technical decisions, and tackling complex challenges.
• Experience with modern technologies such as Go, Kotlin, Python, or similar, along with cloud-native environments (e. g., AWS, Docker, Kubernetes) or relevant mobile engineering tools.
• A product-oriented approach, with the ability to make pragmatic decisions and thoughtful trade-offs in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to bring clarity, alignment, and influence across both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• An empathetic leadership style, with a focus on team well-being, continuous feedback, and professional growth.
• Adaptable and action-oriented, comfortable navigating ambiguity and shifting priorities with confidence.

Benefits

• Enrolment onto our VSOP program: you will own a stake in Sum Up's future success.
• Generous time off: enjoy 28 days of paid leave, plus bank holidays and special leaves.
• Health matters: Vitality health cover, including optical and dental.
• Life made easier: salary-sacrifice commuter benefits via Gogeta.
• Financial security: retirement scheme (Sum Up matches 7% when you contribute 5%).
• Peace of mind: life insurance from Met Life for 2× your salary.
• Break4me: 1-month sabbatical after 3 years of service.
• Referral bonus: earn additional rewards by referring talented individuals to join the Sum Up team.

Sum Up is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, actively seeking and embracing diversity in our workforce.

We do not make hiring or employment decisions based on 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.

Our commitment extends beyond recruitment to creating a safe and respectful workplace where harassment of any form is strictly prohibited.

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