Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Tide, a rapidly growing finance platform for small businesses, and contribute to our event-driven microservice architecture. As a key member of our engineering team, you will design, build, run, and scale services globally using Java 17, Spring Boot, and JOOQ. You will work with RESTful APIs, event streaming technologies (SNS, SQS, Kafka), and PostgreSQL. We offer a flexible workplace model supporting both in-person and remote work, with opportunities for collaboration and professional growth. We value a collaborative environment and encourage innovation. Tide is committed to diversity and inclusion, creating a welcoming atmosphere for all.

Requirements

• Have some experience building server-side applications and detailed knowledge of the relevant programming languages for your stack
• 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)

Responsibilities

• Contribute to our event-driven Microservice Architecture (currently 200+ services owned by 40+ teams)
• 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
• 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!)
• Experience modern GitOps using ArgoCD
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

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!

Benefits

• 25 days paid annual leave
• Sabbatical Leave
• Share options
• Flexible workplace model that supports both in-person and remote work