Senior Engineer, Backend

At Tide we help SMEs save time (and money) in the running of their businesses by not only offering business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly usable and connected administrative solutions from invoicing to accounting.

Tide is transforming the small business banking market with over 1.8 million members globally across the UK, India, Germany and France.

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 serve our mission: to help SMEs save both time (and money) so they can get back to doing what they love.

• Tide is available for UK, Indian, German and French SMEs
• Over 1.8 million members: 800,000 UK and 1,000,000 in India and growing rapidly
• Over $300 million raised in funding
• Over 2,500 Tideans globally - we’re diversity champions!
• We have offices in Central London, with a member support and technology centre in Sofia, Bulgaria, technology centres in Serbia, Romania, Lithuania and Hyderabad and offices in Gurugram and New Delhi, and in Berlin, Paris and Luxembourg.

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 Tide’s Global One Platform.

It’s 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 Tide’s service 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.

• 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)
• Use Java 17
  ,
  Spring Boot
  and
  JOOQ
  to build your services.
• Expose and consume
  RESTful 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!)
• Utilise
  PostgreSQL
  via 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 by
  Git Hub
  with
  Git Hub actions
  , and solid JUnit/Pact testing (new joiners are encouraged to have something deployed to production in their first 2 weeks)
• Experience modern Git Ops using
  ArgoCD
  . Our Cloud team uses
  Docker, Terraform, EKS/Kubernetes
  to run the platform.
• Have
  Data Dog
  as 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

• Have some experience building server-side applications and detailed knowledge of the relevant programming languages for your stack. You don’t 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 you’ve 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)

At Tide, we champion a flexible workplace model…