Senior Engineer, Backend

ABOUT TIDE

At Tide we are building a business management platform designed to save small businesses time and money. We provide our members with business accounts and related banking services but also a comprehensive set of connected administrative solutions from invoicing to accounting.

Launched in 2017 Tide is now used by over 1 million small businesses across the world and is available to UK Indian and German SMEs. Headquartered in central London with offices in Sofia Hyderabad Delhi Berlin and Belgrade Tide employs over 2000 employees.

Tide is rapidly growing expanding into new products and markets and always looking for passionate and driven people. Join us in our mission to empower small businesses and help them save time and money.

ABOUT THE TEAM:

Our 40 engineering teams are working on designing creating and running the rich product catalogue across our business areas (e.g. Payments Services Business Services). We have a long roadmap ahead of us and always have interesting problems to tackle. We trust and empower our engineers to make real technical decisions that affect multiple teams and shape the future of Tides Global One Platform. Its an exceptional opportunity to make a real difference by taking ownership of engineering practices in a rapidly expanding company!

We work in small autonomous teams grouped under common domains owning the full lifecycle of some microservices in Tides service catalogue. Our engineers self-organize gather together to discuss technical challenges and set their own guidelines in the different Communities of Practice regardless of where they currently stand in our Growth Framework.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

• Contribute to our event-driven Microservice Architecture (currently 200 services owned by 40 teams). You will define and maintain the services your team owns (you design it you build it you run it you scale it globally)
• UseJava 17Spring BootandJOOQto build your services.
• Expose and consumeRESTful APIs. We value good API design and we treat our APIs as Products (in the world of Open Banking often times they are gonna be public!)
• UseSNSSQSandKafkato send events
• UtilisePostgreSQLvia Aurora as your primary datastore (we are heavy AWS users)
• Deploy your services to Production as often as you need to (this usually means multiple times per day!). This is enabled by our CI/CD pipelines powered byGitHubwithGitHub actions and solid JUnit/Pact testing (new joiners are encouraged to have something deployed to production in their first 2 weeks)
• Experience modern GitOps usingArgoCD. Our Cloud team usesDocker Terraform EKS/Kubernetesto run the platform.
• HaveDataDogas your best friend to monitor your services and investigate issues
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners to understand our Users needs Business opportunities and Regulatory requirements and translate them into well-engineered solutions

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• Have some experience building server-side applications and detailed knowledge of the relevant programming languages for your stack. You dont need to know Java but bear in mind that most of our services are written in Java so you need to be willing to learn it when you have to change something there!
• Have a sound knowledge of a backend framework (e.g. Spring/Spring Boot) that youve used to write microservices that expose and consume RESTful APIs
• Have experience engineering scalable and reliable solutions in a cloud-native environment (the most important thing for us is understanding the fundamentals of CI/CD practical Agile so to speak)
• Demonstrate a mindset of delivering secure well-tested and well-documented software that integrates with various third party providers and partners (we do that a lot in the fintech industry)

OUR TECH STACK:

• Java 17 Spring Boot and JOOQ to build the RESTful APIs of our microservices
• Event-driven architecture with messages over SNSSQS and Kafka to make them reliable
• Primary datastores are MySQL and PostgreSQL via RDS or Aurora (we are heavy AWS users)
• Docker Terraform EKS/Kubernetes used by the Cloud team to run the platform
• DataDog ElasticSearch/Fluentd/Kibana and Rollbar to keep it running
• GitHub with GitHub actions for Sonarcloud Snyk and solid JUnit/Pact testing to power the CI/CD pipelines

WHAT YOU WILL GET IN RETURN:

• Competitive salary
• Self & Family Health Insurance
• Term & Life Insurance
• OPD Benefits
• Mental wellbeing through Plumm
• Learning & Development Budget
• WFH Setup allowance
• 25 Annual leaves
• Family & Friendly Leaves

TIDEAN WAYS OF WORKING:

At Tide we champion a flexible workplace model that supports both in-person and remote work to cater to the specific needs of our different teams.

While remote work is supported we believe in the power of face-to-face interactions to foster team spirit and collaboration. Our offices are designed as hubs for innovation and team-building where we encourage regular in-person gatherings to foster a strong sense of community.

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TIDE IS A PLACE FOR EVERYONE

At Tide we believe that we can only succeed if we let our differences enrich our culture. Our Tideans come from a variety of backgrounds and experience levels. We consider everyone irrespective of their ethnicity religion sexual orientation gender identity family or parental status national origin veteran neurodiversity or differently-abled status. We celebrate diversity in our workforce as a cornerstone of our success. Our commitment to a broad spectrum of ideas and backgrounds is what enables us to build products that resonate with our members diverse needs and lives.

We are One Team and foster a transparent and inclusive environment where everyones voice is heard.

At Tide we thrive on diversity embracing various backgrounds and experiences. We welcome all individuals regardless of ethnicity religion sexual orientation gender identity or disability. Our inclusive culture is key to our success helping us build products that meet our members diverse needs. We are One Team committed to transparency and ensuring everyones voice is heard.

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