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# Principal Backend Engineer at Teya

Department: Engineering

Compensation

€5,600 – €8,700/mo

**Setup**
: Hybrid

**Location**
: Riga

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: staff+

**Posted**
: Apr 17, 2026

## Description

Teya is hiring a Principal Backend Engineer to design and own the architecture and infrastructure for its fintech platforms serving payments, merchant onboarding, transaction processing, and operational workflows across Europe. The role focuses on high-scale, cloud-native, secure, compliant, and highly available systems, with hands-on leadership in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, event-driven architecture, APIs, observability, and cross-functional technical strategy. The position requires at least eight years of distributed backend experience and offers flexible working hours, health insurance, annual leave, and a hybrid work mode.

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