Staff - Backend Engineer

ABOUT TIDEAt Tide we are building a finance 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 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 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-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 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 Use SNS SQS and Kafka to send events 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 GitHub with GitHub actions and solid JUnit Pact testing new joiners are encouraged to have something deployed to production in their first 2 weeks Experience modern GitOps using ArgoCD Our Cloud team uses Docker Terraform EKS Kubernetes to run the platform Have DataDog 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 WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR 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 OUR TECH STACK Java 17 Spring Boot and JOOQ to build the RESTful APIs of our microservices 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 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 LI-NN1TIDE IS A PLACE FOR EVERYONEAt 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 You personal data will be processed by Tide for 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