Teya
Teya
Teya is a UK-based fintech and payments company serving small and local businesses across Europe. Its offering includes card machines, mobile payments through Teya Tap, next-day settlements, and real-time analytics designed to help merchants manage everyday transactions and business performance. Teya also integrates with more than 50 ePOS systems and provides payment plans for different business needs. The company’s payment services are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Senior Backend Engineer at Teya, Porto Hybrid

Lead the design and operation of reliable Java and Spring Boot services supporting Teya’s fintech platform. Own architecture, delivery, production systems, and engineering quality for products serving local businesses across Europe.

Description

  • Create and maintain secure, efficient, clean, and thoroughly tested backend services
  • Drive scalability, performance, and reliability across Teya’s systems
  • Take ownership of features and projects from scope definition and design through development, testing, deployment, and maintenance
  • Work closely with product, design, data science, security, and operations colleagues
  • Provide technical perspective in architecture reviews and engineering discussions
  • Develop tools and system integrations that strengthen operational efficiency, reliability, and scale
  • Advance continuous integration, delivery, and deployment practices
  • Review code and help raise the team’s engineering quality and effectiveness
  • Coach and support fellow software developers
  • Keep up with developments in software engineering, payments, and fintech
  • Investigate complex cross-system problems and deliver timely solutions
  • Establish and champion standards for code quality, testing, automation, and security
  • Act as a subject-matter expert and provide technical support to other teams

Requirements

  • At least five years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong experience developing backend systems with Java 17+ and Spring Boot
  • Demonstrated ability to design, build, and operate dependable production services
  • Experience with system design, scalable architectures, microservices, and API development
  • Strong knowledge of databases, data structures, performance trade-offs, and distributed systems
  • Hands-on experience with Kafka and event-driven architectures
  • A strong commitment to monitoring, observability, testing, and operational ownership
  • Experience diagnosing complex problems across multiple services or systems
  • Ability to work independently, make sound technical decisions, and become effective quickly
  • Clear communicator who can explain complex subjects and influence technical direction
  • Collaborative mindset and willingness to help other engineers grow
  • Experience working in an Agile or Scrum environment
  • A degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline is desirable
  • Experience in payments, fintech, or platforms for location and business recommendations is desirable
  • Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Helm is desirable
  • Experience with Laravel, Spring, Reactor, or relevant frameworks, SDKs, APIs, and libraries is desirable
  • Familiarity with RBAC, ABAC, or SpiceDB is desirable
  • Experience with BDD or TDD is desirable
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines is desirable

Benefits

  • Flexible working hours
  • Health insurance
  • Physical and mental health support through a MyFitness partnership
  • 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Opportunity to visit other Teya offices to meet colleagues when travel is safe and appropriate
  • Friday lunch at the office
  • Friendly office with high-quality work equipment
  • Informal office environment
  • Hybrid working policy

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