Engineering Manager

Company Description

Hello! We're Teya.

Teya is a payment and software service provider, headquartered in London serving small, local businesses across Europe. Founded in 2019, we build easy to use, integrated tools that enable our members to accept payments and boost business performance.

At Teya we believe small, local businesses are the lifeblood of our communities.

We’re here because we don’t believe there’s a level playing field that gives small businesses with a fighting chance against the giants of the high street.We’re here because we see banks and legacy service providers making things harder for them. We don’t think the best technology or the best service should be reserved for those with the biggest headquarters.We’re here to fight for a future where small, local businesses can thrive, and to commit the same dedication they offer all of us.

Become a part of our story.

We’re looking for exceptional talent to join our mission. We offer a chance to create impact in a high-energy and connected culture, while benefiting from continuous learning opportunities, a supportive community which is proud to serve our mission, and comprehensive benefits.

Job Description

Your Team:

As an Engineering Manager at Teya, you'll spearhead our engineering teams, guiding them through the development lifecycle to deliver solutions that enhance our customers' business operations. Your role combines strategic planning, hands-on management, and direct customer engagement to ensure our products deliver real value. You'll champion quality coding, maintainable software design, and continuous improvement. We seek someone who is technically skilled and passionate about learning, leading, and excelling. You'll need a strategic mindset, future vision, and deep understanding of digital payment processes. Your ambition should align with ours—growing with Teya and shaping our engineering future.

On a regular day as an Engineering Manager you will:

• Manage the careers and growth of a diverse team of individual contributors, setting goals, providing feedback, creating development plans, and conducting performance reviews;

• Collaborate with peers across Teya to deliver world-class services for small business owners in Europe;

• Drive Quality of Delivery to ensure team velocity and performance;

• Monitor metrics to maintain SLOs and error budgets;

• Own the definition, prioritization, and delivery of development projects to meet business and technology goals, while contributing to roadmap planning;

• Lead the design of efficient, scalable, high-throughput, and reliable cloud-based software systems;

• Plan team growth, conduct interviews, and design onboarding processes;

• Work closely with key stakeholders across engineering, product, project, and sales teams.

Qualifications

Your Story

• 3+ years leading development teams, managing the full lifecycle of key features, including planning, delivery, and maintenance.

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, preferably with object-oriented languages and a strong understanding of reliability engineering;

• Professional experience leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, scaling) of multiple new and existing systems;

• Proven ability to document and communicate technical decisions to diverse audiences;

• Strong problem-solving skills using data structures and algorithms, with the ability to analyze solution complexity.

Ideal candidates have experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, etc.) and have worked on high-performance web (React/TypeScript) and mobile (Kotlin, Swift, Flutter) applications, crafting scalable, reliable, and responsive user interfaces.

Additional Information

The Perks

• We trust you, so we offer flexible working hours, as long it suits both you and your team;

• Health Insurance;

• 25 days of Annual leave (+ Bank Holidays);

• Possibility to visit other Teya offices to meet colleagues in instances when travel is safe and appropriate;

• Friday lunch in the office;

• Friendly, comfortable and high-end work equipment and informal office environment;

• Hybrid work mode policy;