Responsibilities
- Defining, owning and maintaining the services your team owns from our service catalogue that fall in one of our domains (you design it, you build it, you run it, you scale it globally)
- Working with the product team to select technology partners
- Work with backend engineers across multiple agile teams carefully dividing your time between design/refinement, implementation and mentoring other team members
- Regularly aligning your team’s vision and roadmap with the target architecture within your domain and 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
- Career progression is as important to us as it is for you, and we, therefore, have put in place a Tide Growth Framework to guide you. With our expanding teams and business, we will encourage you to outgrow your initial responsibilities, if you so desire
Requirements
- Proven work experience as a Python Developer (working with this as a primary language)
- Basic understanding of software engineering fundamentals (SOLID, ACID, Testing)
- Hands-on experience with AWS and frameworks such as: Django, FastAPI and Flask
- Extensive experience integrating with or creating REST APIs
- Experience working in Scrum and following Agile development practises
- Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude
- You’re passionate about learning every day and sharing your knowledge and experience every day
- Genuinely excited about supporting small businesses, in the UK and in global markets
Nice to Have
- Experience working with event driven microservice or message queues
- An understanding of Salesforce integrations
Tech Stack
Python, AWS (including Lambda, Fargate, EKS, SQS, SNS, SES and S3), Postgres, Google BigQuery, Terraform, Sentry
Benefits
- The gross annual salary for this position ranges from €51,000 - €63,500 but we are also open to discussing the salary further, taking into account your expertise and contributions.
- 25 days paid annual leave
- 3 paid days off for volunteering or L&D activities
- Extended maternity and paternity leave covered by the company
- Personal L&D budget in the amount of 500 EUR per year
- Additional health & dental insurance
- Mental wellbeing platform
- Fully covered Multisports card
- Food vouchers
- Snacks, light food, drinks in the office
- WFH equipment allowance
- Flexible working from home
- Sabbatical Leave
- Share options
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — Central London, Sofia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, Lithuania, Hyderabad, Gurugram, New Delhi, Berlin, Paris, Luxembourg
ABOUT THE TEAM
We’re looking for an experienced Backend Engineer with excellent programming skills and a passion for developing applications or improving existing ones, we would like to meet you. As an Engineer at Tide, you’ll report directly to the Staff Engineer and work in a team of highly skilled Engineers. You’ll work closely with our tech team to ensure system consistency and improve user experience. We work in an agile fashion, small cross functional squads, grouped under common domains owning the full lifecycle of some microservices in Tide’s service catalogue. You’ll bring new ideas, and become an integral part of the process of continuously improving our product. Outside of working in your squad you will discuss technical challenges, in our different Communities of Practice.
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.
Additional Information
- Flexible workplace model that supports both in-person and remote work
- Offices serve as hubs for innovation and team-building with regular in-person gatherings encouraged
- WFH equipment allowance provided
