As a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Teya (operating as Storyous in Czechia), you will lead a feature team of backend, frontend, and mobile engineers focused on customer onboarding and verification systems. You will blend technical leadership with people management, driving engineering excellence while collaborating with product, compliance, and engineering stakeholders to deliver scalable and secure solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead a feature team of backend, frontend and mobile engineers
- Manage team performance, development, and career growth through regular feedback, coaching, and structured reviews
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners in product, compliance, and engineering to deliver features that enhance onboarding efficiency while maintaining regulatory integrity
- Drive high standards for clean architecture, security, automation, and maintainability across the codebase
- Own team delivery, system reliability, and continuous improvement of development processes
- Contribute to roadmap definition
- Mentor engineers on advanced technical and architectural decisions, empowering them to solve complex challenges independently
- Participate in recruitment, onboarding, and capacity planning to scale the team effectively
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience managing engineers, including performance and career development
- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, ideally full stack with Node.js, PHP, Kotlin, or similar technologies
- Experience in systems design, especially in high-throughput, secure, or regulated environments
- Familiarity with automation-first development principles and reducing manual, error-prone processes
- Strong communication skills, able to articulate technical trade-offs to diverse audiences
- Comfortable with Agile development methodologies and managing delivery in fast-paced, high-stakes environments
- A pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset with a bias for action and ownership
Tech Stack
Node.js, PHP, Kotlin
Benefits
- 26 days of vacation, work from home, sick days
- Benefit Plus Cafeteria
- Frequent team events and activities in and outside the office
- Opportunity to travel to different offices across Europe
- Fruit in the office and special coffee every day
- Friendly, comfortable, and informal office environment
- Flexible working hours, if it suits you and your team
Work Arrangement
local-country — Czechia — Flexible working hours, if it suits you and your team; work from home option available
Team
Team size: smaller team. Structure: Engineering Manager leading a feature team of backend, frontend and mobile engineers; part of Storyous team within Teya
- Smaller team with own culture, energy, and ideas
- Friendly, comfortable, and informal office environment
- Frequent team events and activities in and outside the office
Additional Information
- Part of the international fintech group Teya, but operating as a smaller team in Czechia
- Role involves leading systems that power customer onboarding and verification across Europe
- Opportunity to travel to different offices across Europe
