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Teya is a financial platform serving local businesses (cafés, restaurants, salons, shops, entrepreneurs) across Europe. The company is building simple, thoughtful tools and real human support to replace clunky legacy financial services.
As Staff Engineer and Tech Lead for the ePOS team, you will lead a small group of engineers while remaining hands-on in coding and architecture. This role blends technical leadership with emerging people management responsibilities. You'll own technical delivery end-to-end, guide your team through complex engineering challenges, mentor engineers on technical and architectural decisions, and foster a culture of technical excellence.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading a small team of engineers as their technical lead, owning technical delivery end to end
- Staying hands-on with coding, code reviews, and architecture decisions
- Mentoring and coaching engineers to solve complex problems independently
- Supporting team growth and development through regular feedback, building toward a people management role
- Managing stakeholders across product, engineering, and the wider business; aligning priorities and communicating progress and trade-offs
- Bridging mobile and backend systems, working closely with mobile-focused and backend teams to design solutions across the stack
- Driving high standards for clean architecture, reliability, automation, and maintainability
- Contributing to roadmap definition and continuous improvement of development processes
- Participating in recruitment, onboarding, and capacity planning as the team grows
The ideal candidate is curious, thoughtful, and pragmatic—someone who enjoys hands-on work, is excited by building products that work in the real world, and wants to grow toward Engineering Management.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong hands-on software engineering experience with a track record of leading engineers technically
- Experience mentoring and coaching engineers
- Ideally around one year of people management experience, or experience leading a team functionally with genuine interest in moving into people management
- Mobile development experience (preferred), with solid understanding of backend systems
- Proficiency in Java and/or Kotlin
- Experience in systems design and making architectural decisions in production environments
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills; ability to explain technical trade-offs to diverse audiences
- Comfortable with Agile methodologies and owning delivery in a fast-paced environment
- Pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset with bias for action and ownership
NICE TO HAVE:
- Familiarity with edge devices and IoT
