Engineering Manager - Verification

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Key Responsibilities

• 1
  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.
• 2
  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.
• 3
  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.
• 4
  Shape roadmap priorities alongside the PM, ensuring trade-offs are well understood and that compliance requirements and AI-influenced features are properly accounted for.
• 5
  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
• 6
  Develop engineers with intention through regular 1:1s, direct feedback, and deliberate stretch opportunities, building a team with strong technical and product judgment

Requirements

• You have a proven track record of leading engineering teams through technical transformation, including large-scale migrations and legacy modernisation.
• You bring strong technical depth in backend technologies, particularly Go and API/integration architecture, and have hands-on experience with observability, CI/CD, and testing practices
• You have experience (or a appetite to learn) in KYC/KYB regulatory environments and understand how frameworks like eIDAS interact with product and engineering decisions
• You are a solid people leader who develops high performers, addresses underperformance directly and fairly, and builds psychologically safe, inclusive, high-performing teams
• If you don't tick every box, it's ok too because it means you have room to learn and develop your career at SumUp.

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