Staff Engineer, Backend

1 Month ago • All levels • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Tide is seeking a Staff/Principal Engineer, Backend to design, create, and run the product catalogue. This role involves making architectural decisions, laying groundwork for teams, selecting technology partners, leading engineers, and aligning architectural visions. Responsibilities include translating requirements into solutions, contributing to Communities of Practice, and applying extensive experience to establish best practices. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience building server-side applications, knowledge of backend frameworks like Spring/Spring Boot, experience with microservices and RESTful APIs, and expertise in cloud-native environments. They should demonstrate a mindset of delivering secure, well-tested, and documented software, be comfortable in agile environments, and have experience integrating with third-party providers and relational databases.
Must have:
  • 10+ years experience building server-side applications
  • Knowledge of backend framework (e.g., Spring/Spring Boot)
  • Experience with microservices and RESTful APIs
  • Experience in cloud-native environments
  • Mindset of delivering secure, well-tested software
  • Comfortable working in an agile environment
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audience
Good to have:
  • Experience integrating with various third-party providers
  • Experience with relational databases
  • Exposure to continuous integration, delivery, and deployment

Job Details

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 2,000 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: 

As a Staff / Principal Engineer at Tide you will be working on the designing, creating and running the rich product catalogue of your area. We have a long roadmap ahead of us and rarely run out of interesting problems to tackle. To name some of the products we are running - we have our own core account/payments infrastructure adapted to a variety of partner banks, our onboarding flow is a complicated state machine, we offer numerous lending products and a ton of business admin tools to help our members run their accounting, payroll, tax and so on, and last but not least - we have tooling to handle our marketing, servicing, public APIs, our investment products and acquiring solutions.

This role offers an exceptional opportunity to make a real difference by taking ownership of engineering practices in a rapidly expanding company! We trust and empower our Staff engineers to make real architectural decisions that affect their domain and shape the future of Tide’s One Platform.

We work in full-stack teams, grouped under common domains owning some Products in Tide’s product catalogue. Our engineers self-organise, 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:

  • Defining and owning autonomously part of the target architecture for your domain, making sure that all the projects and services in the area follow it
  • Working on early engineering phases to lay the groundwork for the team(s) in your area
  • Working with the product team to select technology partners
  • Leading the engineers in your team carefully dividing your time between design, coding and coaching other team members. You will be the person people turn to seeking advice and solutions to difficult problems
  • Regularly aligning your vision and roadmap of the your part of the target architecture with other Staff Engineers and their respective target architectures to ensure the success of complex multi domain initiatives
  • Working closely with product owners, mobile & web engineers, data scientist and other business members to translate requirements into well-engineered solutions
  • Making key contributions to our Community of Practice. You will apply your extensive experience on our problem domain and existing guidelines to become a true beacon of best practices among your fellow engineers

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

  • Have extensive experience (10+ years) building server-side applications and detailed knowledge of the relevant programming languages for your stack (e.g. Java 8 or newer). You don’t need to know Java, but to be on top of the teams, you need to be willing to learn it (we already have a lot of microservices written in Java)
  • Have a sound knowledge of a backend framework (e.g. Spring/Spring Boot)
  • Have experience with running microservices and implementing and consuming RESTful APIs (in the world of Open Banking often times they are gonna be public!)
  • Have experience engineering scalable and reliable solutions in a cloud-native environment
  • Demonstrate a mindset of delivering secure, well-tested and well-documented software
  • Are willing to own your code and your team’s processes from development to production
  • Have exposure to complex solutions in the area of financial / payment services
  • Have experience integrating with various third party providers and partners
  • Have experience with relational databases.
  • Are comfortable working in an agile environment
  • Have the ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
  • Have exposure to continuous integration, delivery and deployment

OUR TECH STACK:

  • Java, Spring Boot and JOOQ to build the RESTful APIs of our microservices (but we welcome people who are used to any strongly typed general purpose programming language!)
  • Event-driven architecture with messages over SNS+SQS and Kafka to make them reliable
  • Primary datastores are MySQL and PostgreSQL via RDS or Aurora (we are heavy AWS users)
  • Docker, Terraform, EKS used by the Cloud team to run the platform
  • DataDog and Rollbar to keep it running
  • GitHub with Sonarcloud, Semgrep and solid testing to power the CI/CD pipelines - new joiners are encouraged to have something deployed to production in their first 2 weeks
  • Angular 2+ with ngrx on Web, Flutter for the Mobile App
  • Fivetran/Snowflake/Looker for the BI insights and Python/Faust/Flask/Tecton + some ML libs for the automated decisioning and risk management

 

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.



#LI-GI1 
#LI-Hybrid
#LI-Remote 

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 everyone’s 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 everyone’s voice is heard.

 

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About The Company

Tide is the leading provider of UK small business (SMEs) accounts and one of the fastest-growing fintechs in the UK. Tide is live in the UK and India with over 650,000 members in the UK and more than 350,000 in India.


Tide is transforming the small business banking market. Our platform not only offers business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly connected admin tools for businesses, such as full integration with accounting systems (live for our UK members, many are live in India, and coming soon to Germany). Using advanced technology, all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind.


With quick onboarding, low fees and innovative features, we thrive on making data-driven decisions to help SMEs save both time and money.

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