Principal Backend Engineer

Company Description

Hello! We're Teya.

Teya is a payment and software service provider, headquartered in London serving small, local businesses across Europe. Founded in 2019, we build easy to use, integrated tools that enable our members to accept payments and boost business performance.

At Teya we believe small, local businesses are the lifeblood of our communities.

We’re here because we don’t believe there’s a level playing field that gives small businesses with a fighting chance against the giants of the high street.

We’re here because we see banks and legacy service providers making things harder for them. We don’t think the best technology or the best service should be reserved for those with the biggest headquarters.

We’re here to fight for a future where small, local businesses can thrive, and to commit the same dedication they offer all of us.

Become a part of our story.

We’re looking for exceptional talent to join our mission. We offer a chance to create impact in a high-energy and connected culture, while benefiting from continuous learning opportunities, a supportive community which is proud to serve our mission, and comprehensive benefits.

Job Description

Your Team 

You will work with a diverse team to help shape the future of our Engineering Department. You will shape the technology of the company while solving business problems and incorporating customer feedback. 

You may use technologies such as Java to write maintainable, performant and high-quality code. We focus on continuous deployment and iterative delivery, to ensure that our code runs reliably on our infrastructure, allowing you to focus on delivering value to merchants in a fluid manner. 

Your Mission 

On a regular day as a Principal Engineer with us: 

• You are a key influencer for strategic decisions in the company. You bring technology and industry context to business decisions; 
• You are adept at building consensus and driving closure on contentious topics; 
• You guide the career growth of the most senior technical talent in the company. You participate in performance evaluations and advocate for the careers of others; 
• You write clean, secure, and well-tested code to solve business problems; 
• You build tools and integrate systems to scale the effectiveness of products across the business; 
• You collaborate and communicate effectively within the team and across the organisation to achieve the team’s goals; 
• You identify intrinsically hard problems (e.g., major bottleneck or existing architectural complexity that slow down or prevent innovation, pose a critical business or security risk, undefined opportunity with potentially high impact.) 
• You lead by example; you recognize that every solution you produce will be used as a role model for others; 
• You create positive and lasting change on the architecture and technical abstractions of the company. You guide decisions to be intentional, incremental, and aligned toward long-term goals for the company. 

Qualifications

Your Story

• You have 8+ years of experience as a software engineer leader; 
• You have experience motivating colleagues at all levels; 
• You have experience growing and scaling teams; 
• You enjoy serving as a mentor and supporter for fellow developers and team-mates; 
• You have experience with relational and non-relational databases; 
• You are well-versed in using Containers for packaging your application; 
• You have experience with event-streaming architecture; 
• You have previous experience in the Payments Industry would be a plus; 
• You can operate services that the team builds while identifying opportunities for improvements and keeping to the agreed levels of service. 

Additional Information

The Perks

• We trust you, so we offer flexible working hours, as long it suits both you and your team;   
• Health Insurance;   
• 25 days of Annual leave (+ Bank Holidays);   
• Possibility to visit other Teya offices to meet colleagues in instances when travel is safe and appropriate; 
• Friday lunch in the office; 
• Friendly, comfortable and high-end work equipment and informal office environment; 
• Hybrid work mode policy; 
• We want to have the best people by our side – we can sponsor work visas and relocation process for qualified professionals. 

All CVs and supporting documents must be submitted in English.