Description:

Tide is building a finance and admin platform aimed at saving small businesses time and money, providing business accounts and related banking services along with administrative solutions.
The company has grown rapidly since its launch in 2017, now serving 575,000 SME members in the UK and over 250,000 SMEs in India.
The engineering team consists of over 40 teams working on a rich product catalogue across various business areas, with a focus on empowering engineers to make technical decisions.
The role involves contributing to an event-driven Microservice Architecture with over 200 services, defining and maintaining services, and using Java 17, Spring Boot, and JOOQ.
Responsibilities include exposing and consuming RESTful APIs, utilizing SNS, SQS, and Kafka for event handling, and using PostgreSQL via Aurora as the primary datastore.
Engineers are expected to deploy services to production frequently, supported by CI/CD pipelines and testing frameworks.
The role requires collaboration with Product Owners to understand user needs and translate them into well-engineered solutions.

Requirements:

Candidates should have experience building server-side applications and a willingness to learn Java, as most services are written in this language.
A sound knowledge of a backend framework, such as Spring/Spring Boot, is required, particularly for writing microservices that expose and consume RESTful APIs.
Experience in engineering scalable and reliable solutions in a cloud-native environment is essential, with a focus on understanding CI/CD fundamentals.
Candidates must demonstrate a mindset of delivering secure, well-tested, and well-documented software that integrates with third-party providers and partners.

Employees receive 25 days of paid annual leave and 3 paid days off for volunteering or learning and development activities.
The company offers extended maternity and paternity leave, a personal learning and development budget of 1000 BGN per year, and additional health and dental insurance.
Employees have access to a mental wellbeing platform, a fully covered Multisports card, food vouchers, and snacks in the office.
A work-from-home equipment allowance and flexible working arrangements are provided, along with sabbatical leave and share options.
Tide supports remote work, allowing employees to work from anywhere in their home country and offers the option to work from abroad for up to 90 days per year.