Principal Software Engineer

About Teya

Teya exists to make sure that every small and growing business in Europe has the opportunity to thrive. We want to become Europe’s go-to software solution for these businesses, simplifying their every day and helping them reconnect with the joy of running their business. We've built a fast-paced, energetic, and innovative environment that is dedicated to bringing the best solutions to customers.

Job mission

Lead development to massively scale onboarding, due diligence, and ongoing monitoring of Teya customers. Design, implement, and operate customer experiences, complex workflows, and operational task management applications to enable multiple order of magnitude growth. Introduce and invent ML and AI solutions to automate complex tasks and invert the human-machine initiative

Job Description

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, React, and Python 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.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of professional software development experience with Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, or related field.
• 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.

The Perks

• We trust you, so we offer flexible working hours, as long it suits both you and your team;
• Physical and mental health support through our partnership with GymPass giving free access to over 1,500 gyms in the UK, 1-1 therapy, meditation sessions, digital fitness and nutrition apps;
• Our company offers extended and improved maternity and paternity leave choices, giving employees more flexibility and support;
• Cycle-to-Work Scheme;
• Health and Life Insurance;
• Pension Scheme;
• 25 days of Annual Leave (+ Bank Holidays);
• Office snacks every day;
• Friendly, comfortable and informal office environment in Central London.