Senior Staff Engineer

Job Title: Senior Staff Engineer

Location: United Kingdom, Germany, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania. 

About Tide

At Tide, we are building a finance & admin 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 the leading business financial platform in the UK with 575,000 SME members (10% market share) and more than 250,000 SMEs in India. Headquartered in London, Tide has over 1,800 Tideans across the UK, Bulgaria, India, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine and Germany. 

Tide is rapidly growing, expanding into new 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 role 

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.

• 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

What you’ll get in return: 

• Vitality health insurance with a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

• Hundreds of perks and discounts through Vitality Health Insurance (fitness watches, Waitrose cashback, gym membership etc.) - Permanent only

• 25 days holiday per year and an extra 5 days unpaid leave per year (which can be requested via Bamboo)

• Up to £1,000 professional Training & Development budget per year - Permanent only

• Enhanced family-friendly leave (Maternity and Paternity)

• Access to ‘salary sacrifice’ benefits such as Cycle to Work scheme and pension contribution -Permanent only

• 24 hours paid volunteering time off per year or L&D time off

• Company paid sick leave after completing 6 months at Tide

• Flexible work from home or at the office arrangements, see Working Outside the Office policy (WOO)

• WOO Equipment Allowance, we go 50/50 and up to £200 to help you set up your home office - Permanent only

• Referral bonus when you bring your friends to join Tide 

• Group Life Insurance, paying 4 times your annual salary to your nominee should you die whilst at Tide. 

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. 

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.

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