Unzer operates a payments and point-of-sale ecosystem serving 85,000+ merchants across four European countries. The tech stack reveals a mature data and security posture—Kafka, Airflow, dbt, Redshift, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes—paired with heavy investment in compliance and risk frameworks. Hiring momentum has decelerated, but headcount leans heavily toward security (12 open), finance (10), and sales (9), reflecting the operational reality of managing tax, regulatory, and incident-response requirements across fragmented European jurisdictions.
Notable leadership hires: Head of Tax
Unzer provides an integrated payment and retail-operations platform covering online checkouts, mobile POS systems, settlement, and business-process automation. The merchant base spans Germany, Austria, Denmark, and Luxembourg, with ~750 employees distributed across eight regional offices. The product portfolio centers on payment processing and merchant-facing software tools; backend operations rely on cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and a data platform built on Kafka, Airflow, and Redshift. Active initiatives include tax-process automation, security architecture redesign, and buildout of a self-serve data platform—all aligned with the compliance and auditability demands of their regulated operating environment.
Unzer runs on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Core data pipeline: Kafka, Apache Airflow, dbt, Redshift, PostgreSQL. Frontend: Node.js, Vue, TypeScript. Orchestration: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform. CI/CD: CircleCI, GitHub Actions. Monitoring: Datadog.
Unzer is headquartered in Berlin, Germany with eight offices across Germany, Austria, Denmark, and Luxembourg. The company hires across all four countries.
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