Staff Engineer

Our client, a fast-growing fintech company serving millions of customers, is seeking a Staff Engineer to join its team based in Athens.

The Role
The Staff Engineer will join one of the company’s core product groups, responsible for key customer-facing features and the financial infrastructure behind them. The role shapes the technical direction of the group, connecting backend systems, financial infrastructure and client applications into a platform that is reliable, scalable and built for rapid iteration.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and design modular, scalable and observable systems supporting high-volume experimentation and user engagement flows across the full stack
• Drive the cross-platform technical vision and roadmap, ensuring the architecture supports experimentation, rapid iteration and future business needs
• Set architectural standards, engineering best practices and operational excellence across multiple teams
• Mentor Senior Engineers and other team members, supporting technical excellence and career growth
• Identify root causes of systemic issues and architectural bottlenecks, defining short-term mitigations and long-term resolutions
• Contribute across the full software life cycle, from high-level system design to deployment and post-release monitoring
• Partner with Product Managers and Data Scientists to design technical solutions that unlock growth opportunities and optimise user funnels

What You’ll Bring

• Proven technical leadership and experience designing and architecting systems at scale
• A pragmatic approach, knowing when to build for scale and when to optimise for speed of learning
• A positive, solution-oriented mindset
• Strong planning and prioritisation skills, with the ability to translate business goals into actionable technical strategies across the stack
• Ability to share product insight with stakeholders, challenge product decisions with data, and act as a bridge between Engineering, Product and Data Science
• Clear and concise communication of complex technical, architectural and organisational topics to both technical and non-technical executives
• Experience in cross-functional environments, facilitating technical decision-making and resolving conflicts across teams
• Self-motivation, strong organisational skills and a focus on high-leverage work
• Comfort working with both strongly and dynamically typed languages, with architectural ability valued over any specific language

What’s in it for You
€6,000 — 9,000 gross/month, along with the opportunity to set the technical direction of a core product area in a fintech environment used by millions of customers. You will work on technically challenging problems across the stack and financial infrastructure, with real influence on architecture and engineering standards across multiple teams.