Principal Backend Engineer
TeyaPorto, Portugal
Posted February 13, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Teya is a London‑based fintech that empowers small, local businesses across Europe with an integrated suite of payment and business‑management tools. By combining seamless payment processing, banking features, and operational analytics into a single platform, Teya eliminates the friction that often hampers SMB growth. The company’s commitment to fair, transparent pricing and a user‑centric design sets it apart in the competitive B2B fintech space. Teya’s culture values innovation, customer focus, and a collaborative approach that drives sustainable success for its clients.
Job Description
Teya is a payment and software service provider looking for a Principal Backend Engineer to lead development and design customer experiences, complex workflows, and operational task management applications to enable growth.
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
- Flexible working hours
- 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