Principal Backend Engineer
Teya
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Porto • Portugal
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About the role
- You will lead development on an organisational level.
- Design, implement, and operate customer experiences, complex workflows, and operational task management applications to enable multiple order of magnitude growth.
- 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, Golang 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.
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
- 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
- Friendly, comfortable and informal office environment.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaKotlinGolangdata structuresalgorithmsdesign patternsreliabilityscalingcontinuous deploymentiterative delivery
Soft Skills
problem solvingcommunicationmentorshipleadershipcollaborationcritical thinkingcoachinginfluencingadaptabilitystrategic thinking