Hybrid Principal Backend Engineer

at Teya

• Job title: Principal Backend Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: €5,600 - €8,700 per month
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Java, Kotlin, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Riga, Latvia

About the role

• Principal Backend Engineer leading the development of software applications for a payment service provider headquartered in London. Collaborating on customer experiences and complex workflows with a diverse team.

Responsibilities

• Lead development on an organisational level.
• Design, implement, and operate customer experiences, complex workflows, and operational task management applications.
• Work with a diverse team to help shape the future of our technology.
• Be part of the whole feature development lifecycle on multiple full-stack applications with direct access to customer feedback.
• Use technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Golang to write maintainable, performant, and high-quality code.
• Solve highly complex challenges with simple solutions.
• Be a significant hands-on contributor, demonstrating best practices and setting a high quality bar on a regular basis.
• Work with a community of Principal Engineers and tech leaders for strategic tech decisions.
• Mentor and coach other engineers, fostering their professional growth.
• Lead design reviews for complex software projects and/or critical features.

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
• Physical and mental health support through our partnership with MyFitness
• 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