Senior Engineering Lead

Sumup

About the team The Developer Experience team owns the internal platform that every SumUp engineer touches daily: CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, our developer portal, and an emerging AI platform. It's a high-visibility role: the work you lead directly shapes the productivity of hundreds of engineers across the company. We're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to take full ownership of this domain, grow a team of seven engineers, and define what great developer experience looks like at SumUp as we scale. What you'll do * Lead and develop a growing team of 5+ highly motivated engineers across observability, CI/CD, developer portal (Backstage), and FinOps tooling — setting clear priorities and establishing strong ways of working * Own and evolve the technical roadmap across all DevEx domains, communicating trade-offs clearly to engineering leadership and internal stakeholders * Shape the AI Platform domain from the ground up — defining its charter and identifying where AI tooling adds real value for SumUp engineers * Partner with product engineering managers and platform peers to drive measurable improvements in deploy frequency, onboarding time, and support load * Build the case for how the team needs to grow, identifying skill gaps and preparing the organisation for a future where this role leads other engineering managers You'll be great for this role if… * You have proven experience leading platform, infrastructure, or internal tooling teams at a senior engineering manager level, with a track record of owning a technical domain end-to-end * You bring strong technical foundation across the DevEx stack: CI/CD, observability (Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent), Kubernetes-based platforms - sufficient to make sound architectural decisions and earn engineer trust * You know how to lead through ambiguity and organisational change, including reorgs, scope shifts, or leadership transitions * You can build and communicate a product-style roadmap for a platform domain, with clear prioritisation and a narrative that lands with both engineers and senior stakeholders * You have a genuine curiosity about AI tooling in an engineering context and the confidence to lead a greenfield domain in this space Why you should join SumUp * 🌎 Opportunity to work with a truly global, multicultural team from our central London office location - 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 Virtual Stock Option programme: you will own a stake in SumUp's future success * 📚 A dedicated annual L&D budget for attending conferences and/or advancing your career through further education * 🌴 Break4me: 1-month sabbatical after 3 years of service * 🔗 Referral Bonus: earn additional rewards by referring talented individuals to join the SumUp team * 🏖️ Generous time off: enjoy 28 days of paid leave, plus bank holidays and special leaves * 🏥 Health matters: private health insurance, including optical and dental * 🚗 Life made easier: salary-sacrifice commuter benefits via Gogeta * 💼 Financial security: retirement scheme (SumUp matches 7% when you contribute 5%) * 🛡️ Peace of mind: life insurance from MetLife for 2× your salary About SumUp Be empowered to do more that matters. At SumUp, we're on a mission to empower small businesses across the globe by providing simple and affordable tools that allow them to thrive. Today, over 4 million businesses in 37 markets rely on SumUp as their financial partner to manage payments, finance and customer relationships. Our commitment to small businesses is reflected in our diverse team of over 3,000 SumUppers from over 90 nationalities, united by global collaboration and an innovative mindset. Our core values lay the foundation for who we are and what we stand for, shaping our work culture and driving our success. We foster inclusivity and a continuous learning culture, providing a safe space for personal and professional growth. Our differences make us unique and strong as we strive to create an environment where everyone belongs and feels supported, no matter how they identify. SumUp is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, actively seeking and embracing diversity in our workforce. We don't 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. Discover more about our culture and opportunities on our careers website, and follow our journey on LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok.   Job Application Tip We recognise that candidates feel they need to meet 100% of the job criteria in order to apply for a job. Please note that this is only a guide. 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.

Wheely

ABOUT WHEELY Wheely is redefining premium transportation across major cities in Europe, the US, and the Middle East. We blend cutting-edge technology with the craft of five-star chauffeuring to deliver an experience trusted by more than 100,000 active riders and 1,200 corporate accounts. We’re a profitable, fast-growing scale-up with $43M raised and over $100M in annual revenue. Having recently launched in New York City, we’re expanding rapidly across the US and EMEA. If you take pride in your craft and want to help shape the next chapter of our growth, we'd love to hear from you. ABOUT THE ROLE We're rebuilding Wheely to be the fastest and most reliable ride-hailing app on the planet — one where both the passenger app and the driver app stay responsive on a flaky signal in the back of an apartment building, keep working behind censorship firewalls, and don't drop the real-time guarantees a moving car depends on. We're also adding something nobody in this category has built seriously: privacy as a product, not a compliance footnote. This role owns the core that makes all of that possible: the platform, the infrastructure, the privacy primitives the rest of engineering builds on top of, and the internal agent harness that lets teams across the company automate work that used to need humans. You'll inherit a mostly-Go codebase and a small group of strong engineers. You'll also inherit a genuinely open question on most of what matters. Is microservices the right end state, or did we default into it? How should a backend look in 2026 when AI has absorbed a large share of routine engineering work, when QA isn't a separate function, and when a small senior team paired with a few unusually strong grads can outship a 2019-style org several times its size? Our main engineering hub is in Cyprus. We're now building up London as a second hub, and this role is part of that — you'd be one of the first senior engineering leaders on the ground here, helping shape what London looks like as a location, who we hire into it, and what work belongs where. RESPONSIBILITIES * Own the technical direction of the platform end to end — including the architectural questions that haven't been answered yet, like whether to keep moving toward microservices or reconsider. * Make real-time work, end to end. Driver app especially (location, dispatch, ride state) all of it under adversarial network conditions. * Lead the privacy story on the engineering side — what's actually different about how data flows through our systems vs. every other ride-hailing company. * Own and grow the agent harness so other teams can wire AI into workflows that used to need people. Today it's Rust. Tomorrow's shape is yours. * Help build London as an engineering hub. That means hiring into it, deciding (with the rest of the leadership team) what work makes sense in London vs Cyprus, and setting the culture for a new office while staying tightly coupled to the main hub. REQUIREMENTS * You have designed backend systems from scratch (not only maintained, scaled, or rewritten what someone else built). We'll spend real time in the interview on the trade-offs you made and why. * Real-time systems experience at consumer scale. * Several years of managing engineers, with hiring and firing calls you'd defend in detail. Total headcount matters less to us than the calibre and the outcomes. * Based in London. We sponsor visas: you don't need to be in the UK today, you just need to be willing to move. Regular travel to our Cyprus hub expected, especially early on. WHAT WE OFFER * Office-based role in West London, four days a week with flexible start and finish times, plus one remote day of your choice * Employee stock options plan * Private medical and dental insurance * Life and critical illness cover * Latest-generation MacBook Pro and 4k display * Monthly credit towards Wheely journeys * Cycle to Work scheme * Professional development stipend * Relocation support, including visa sponsorship and allowance All of your personal information will be collected stored and processed in accordance with Wheely’s Candidate Privacy Notice

Malt

🪐 Discover our galaxy   Join the Future of Work ! Malt is Europe's leading freelance marketplace, connecting over 1,000,000 talented freelancers with 100,000+ companies. Founded in 2013, we're transforming how work gets done through our tech-powered, human-centered platform. What makes us different: A diverse team of 600 Malters across 6 European countries A culture that champions equality (50% of our Comex are women) and inclusive growth Backed by top investors including ISAI, Serena Capital, Eurazeo Growth, Goldman Sachs, and BPI A mission to give everyone the freedom to work differently Ready to help shape the future of work? Your next chapter starts here! 🪐 At Malt we believe that Ambition is the Way, so all lists of missions and responsibilities are non-exhaustive. Explore your future career  🔭 We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Compliance strategy for our product engineering team. In this role, you will be the leader overseeing the delivery, performance, and people management for our Compliance squads, composed of 8–15 engineers. You are in charge of the performance, productivity, and innovation within this scope, ensuring that how clients and freelancers connect on Malt remains secure and trustworthy. Today, our compliance ecosystem relies on robust KYC flows; tomorrow, we aim for a full AI-driven compliance experience. You play a crucial role in defining and implementing our technical strategy, driving project timelines, and fostering a high-performing and collaborative engineering environment. This is a hands-on leadership role where you are shaping the safety and integrity of the product experience that hundreds of thousands of freelancers rely on.