Hybrid Principal Backend Engineer

at Teya

• Job title: Principal Backend Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Java, Kotlin, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Porto, Portugal

About the role

• Lead backend development as a Principal Engineer at Teya, a payment service provider in Porto. Collaborate with diverse teams to shape technology and enhance merchant experiences.

Responsibilities

• You will lead development on an organisational level.
• Design, implement, and operate customer experiences, complex workflows, and operational task management applications to enable multiple order of magnitude growth.
• You will work with a diverse team to help shape the future of our technology.
• You will be part of the whole feature development lifecycle on multiple full-stack applications with direct access to a wealth of customer feedback.
• You will use technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Golang to write maintainable, performant, and high-quality code.
• We focus on continuous deployment and iterative delivery, well-tested to ensure our code runs reliably, allowing you to focus on delivering value to merchants in a fluid manner.
• As a Principal Software Engineer, you will:
• Take responsibility for the success of the most important projects in the company.
• Solve highly complex challenges with simple solutions, often where neither the business problem nor technology strategy is well defined.
• Be a significant hands-on contributor, delivering code contributions that demonstrate best practices and set a high quality bar on a regular basis.
• Work with a community of Principal Engineers and tech leaders to be a key influencer for strategic tech decisions,
• Continually evolve our engineering practices using data insights and industry knowledge.
• Mentor and coach other engineers, fostering their professional growth of the most senior technical people.
• Lead design reviews for complex software projects and/or critical features, probing assumptions, illuminating pitfalls, and fostering shared understanding.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Ability to solve problems in code using data structures and algorithms and be able to analyze the time and space complexity of those solutions.
• Proven ability to document and communicate technical decisions to a diverse audience.
• Professional experience leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, scaling) of multiple new and existing systems.
• Professional experience growing peer engineers through mentorship and guidance.
• Ability to work with problems of extreme ambiguity and lead others through ambiguous situations.

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Meal Allowance
• 25 days of Annual leave (+ Bank holidays)
• Public Transportation Card
• Frequent team events & activities in the office and outside
• Office snacks every day
• Friendly, comfortable and informal office environment.