Staff Engineer & Tech Lead — Build the ePOS Platform

Teya; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Teya is building a financial platform for local businesses across Europe. We are seeking a Staff Engineer and Tech Lead for the ePOS team to shape product experiences used by merchants daily.

You will lead a small group of engineers, stay hands-on, and contribute to coding and architecture while growing into people leadership. You will mentor engineers, align with product and wider business, and collaborate with a mobile-focused team to deliver reliable, high-quality features in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on software engineering experience with a track record of leading engineers technically.
• Experience mentoring and coaching engineers.
• Ideally around one year of people management experience or leading a team function with a genuine interest in moving into people management.
• Mobile development experience (preferred) with a solid understanding of backend systems.
• Proficiency in Java and/or Kotlin.
• Experience in systems design and making architectural decisions in production environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills; able to explain trade-offs to diverse audiences.
• Comfortable with Agile methodologies and owning delivery in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of engineers as their technical lead, owning technical delivery end to end.
• Stay hands-on, contributing to coding, code reviews and architecture.
• Mentor and coach engineers on technical and architectural decisions, empowering them to solve complex problems independently.
• Support the growth and development of your team through regular feedback and coaching, building towards a people management role.
• Manage stakeholders across product, engineering and the wider business, aligning priorities and communicating progress and trade-offs clearly.
• Bridge mobile and backend, working closely with the wider backend and mobile-focused team to design solutions that work across the stack.
• Drive high standards for clean architecture, reliability, automation and maintainability.
• Contribute to roadmap definition and continuous improvement of development processes.
• Participate in recruitment, onboarding and capacity planning as the team grows.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Tech leadership

Mentoring engineers

Agile

Stakeholder management

Systems design

Mobile development

Backend

Job description

Teya is building a financial platform for local businesses across Europe. We are seeking a Staff Engineer and Tech Lead for the ePOS team to shape product experiences used by merchants daily.

You will lead a small group of engineers, stay hands-on, and contribute to coding and architecture while growing into people leadership. You will mentor engineers, align with product and wider business, and collaborate with a mobile-focused team to deliver reliable, high-quality features in a fast-paced