Senior Backend Engineer - Identity Lifecycle
SumUp · Berlin, Germany · Berlin
- Level
- Senior
- Type
- full-time
- Mode
- On-site / hybrid
- Posted
- 2026-09-01
- Team
- Engineering
Role description
About the team: You’ll join one of the teams within SumUp’s Identity Lifecycle Mission, working on some of the most critical building blocks behind the merchant journey, from onboarding and identity verification to KYC/KYB, regulatory data collection, and managing customer identity throughout the entire lifecycle. Today, many of these capabilities live across different flows, legacy services, and tightly coupled integrations. We’re on a journey to bring these pieces together into a more coherent, scalable platform, with shared data models, reusable services, and clear ownership boundaries. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you won’t just be maintaining existing systems.…
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