Principal Software Engineer at Teya

About the Job

Job Description

Your Team

• You will work with a diverse team to help shape the future of our Engineering Department. You will shape the technology of the company while solving business problems and incorporating customer feedback.
• You may use technologies such as Go, Java, Python, Kotlin, C#, to write maintainable, performant and high-quality code. We focus on continuous deployment and iterative delivery, to ensure that our code runs reliably on our infrastructure, allowing you to focus on delivering value to merchants in a fluid manner.

Your Mission

On a regular day as a Principal Software Engineer with us:

• You are a key influencer for strategic decisions in the company. You bring technology and industry context to business decisions;
• You are adept at building consensus and driving closure on contentious topics;
• You guide the career growth of the most senior technical talent in the company. You participate in performance evaluations and advocate for the careers of others;
• You write clean, secure, and well-tested code to solve business problems;
• You build tools and integrate systems to scale the effectiveness of products across the business;
• You collaborate and communicate effectively within the team and across the organisation to achieve the team’s goals;
• You identify intrinsically hard problems (e.g., major bottleneck or existing architectural complexity that slow down or prevent innovation, pose a critical business or security risk, undefined opportunity with potentially high impact.)
• You lead by example; you recognize that every solution you produce will be used as a role model for others;
• You create positive and lasting change on the architecture and technical abstractions of the company. You guide decisions to be intentional, incremental, and aligned toward long-term goals for the company.

Qualifications

Your Story

• You have 8+ years of experience as a software engineer leader;
• You have experience motivating colleagues at all levels;
• You have experience growing and scaling teams;
• You enjoy serving as a mentor and supporter for fellow developers and team-mates;
• You have experience with relational and non-relational databases;
• You are well-versed in using Containers for packaging your application;
• You can set up effective CI/CD pipelines;
• You can effectively use Git or other distributed SCM;
• You have previous experience in the Payments Industry would be a plus;
• You can operate services that the team builds while identifying opportunities for improvements and keeping to the agreed levels of service.

Additional Information

The Perks

• 25 days of Annual Leave;
• Possibility to travel to different offices around Europe;
• Friendly, comfortable and informal office environment in Cape Town;
• Flexible working hours, as long it suits both you and your team.