The SumUp engineering team is spread across 2 continents with a large part of it being a hardware team. After raising €330m in 2019 the company set-up ambitious hiring goals. To ensure the business found the best talent they decided to partner up with Recruitty when filling important roles.

Case study: SumUp

The Challenge

Niche Programming Languages - The core payment system of SumUp is written in Elixir and Erlang. There are only 2400+ engineers in the Linkedin network who have experience with both of these languages. Also, they need DevOps and Java developers who live and breathe automation.

Recruitment Process - SumUp has a very rigorous recruitment process to make sure they only hire A-players. It's a candidate-driven market and sometimes it's hard to keep candidates engaged during what can be a lengthy process.

Spotify Model - The whole engineering team of SumUp has moved into a Spotify management model. They need engineers who are ready to work fully autonomously and bring-up innovative ideas. Most of the companies in the world work in a different way as engineers there are just executors.

Our solution

Niche Programming Languages - - To find a good Elixir & Erlang Engineer, we were forced to use our imagination because Linkedin simply is not enough. We hired an engineer using Meetup.com and GitHub. The candidate was from Berlin, so the process was uber-fast. We sourced Slack and Telegram groups to find DevOps and Java engineers.

Recruitment Process - We are in touch with the candidates at every step of their process. To make sure they don't disengage with the process we call or send them personalized videos after each step. This helps us build a long-standing connection with our talent pool.

Spotify Model - Blitz Talent Mapping© is a tool we used to target specific types of companies and engineers. It allows us to cut through the noise faster and operate more efficiently.
During the interview our recruiters asked in-depth product-related questions, to make sure our candidates fit the criteria.

Website

Sector

Fintech

Roles

Senior Java Engineers
Senior Kotlin Engineers
Senior Ruby Engineers
Senior DevOps
Elixir Engineers