Data Engineer

SumUp is a digital ecosystem dedicated to local entrepreneurs. Our range of solutions answers all our merchants' challenges; from reservations, through click and collect, deliveries and digital payment, to the management of their business thanks to intuitive and comprehensive financial analytics.

As a Data Engineer, you will sit within the Compliance Squad of our Risk and Compliance Tribe. The Compliance squad is responsible for making merchant and transaction data available to external regulators and case management systems in order to comply with regulatory requirements and investigate potential money laundering, fraud and financial crime. We are also responsible for enforcing regulatory requirements with regards to transaction and payout limits, as well as maintaining a risk score for all merchants transacting on our platform.

Some of the tools and technologies used in the team:

• Python and PySpark for building data pipelines, services, SDKs, and applications
• AWS Cloud for compute (EKS), storage (S3, Keyspaces for Cassandra), streaming (MSK), data management (Glue, Athena) and machine learning (SageMaker) infrastructure
• Kubernetes and Helm for defining our live, streaming, batch and interactive compute workloads
• Neo4j and Nebula for graph processing and analysis 
• ArgoWorkflows for orchestrating data ingestion, processing and training jobs
• MLFlow and JupyterLab for supporting interactive experimental work
• SpaCy, LangChain and Streamlit for building user-facing generative AI applications
• Github Actions for implementing CI/CD patterns to ensure safe and reliable deployment processes for us and our users
• Kafka for data exchange and building streaming data applications

What you’ll do:

• Building, maintaining and delivering high quality, timely data products based on a wide spectrum of data sources from within Sumup.
• Ensuring the timeliness and accuracy of derived data sets.
• Monitoring and maintaining data engineering jobs written using Apache Spark.
• Working with other engineering teams to accurate and up to date data is made available to our data platform.
• Contributing to architecture, guidelines and best practices for building and maintaining our data platform.
• Maintaining, ownership and governance of our data model in Snowflake.
• Working closely with the stakeholders, enabling them in using our platform capabilities, and engaging in knowledge sharing activities.
• Participating in hiring new engineers for the team.

 

You’ll be great for this role if:

• Experience working with data on large scale systems with high throughput. 
• Commercial experience working with Python and Apache Spark/PySpark.
• Working knowledge of AWS cloud services.
• Excellent understanding of data integrity and data quality.
• Extensive SQL experience.
• Experience working with Kafka or similar data streaming systems.

Why you should join SumUp

• We’re a truly global team of 3000+ people from 60+ countries, spread across 3 continents.
• We get together regularly for breakfasts, team events, office parties and sports.
• You’ll receive a budget for attending conferences and external training. 
• We offer a corporate pension scheme, plus other great benefits.
• You’ll attend global offsites and/or hackathons.

Additional Information 💫

Start date: as soon as possible

Full-timeWork office location(s); Berlin / Cologne

Hybrid working: Yes

About SumUp

We believe in the everyday hero. Those who have the courage to follow their passion and who have the strength and determination to realise their dreams. Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we're creating powerful, easy-to-use financial solutions to help them run their businesses. With a founders mentality and a 'team-first attitude' our diverse teams across Europe, South America, and the United States work together to ensure that small business owners can be successful doing what they love.

SumUp is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. SumUp does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of 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. SumUp also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.

SumUp will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate.

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