Senior Engineer, Python

Summary

Join Tide, a rapidly growing finance platform for small businesses, as a Senior Python Engineer. You will be responsible for defining, owning, and maintaining services within a specific domain, working collaboratively with product teams and other engineers. This role requires proven experience with Python, AWS, and relevant frameworks, along with a strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals and Agile methodologies. Tide offers a competitive salary, flexible benefits, and opportunities for professional development within a supportive and inclusive work environment. The company embraces a hybrid work model, combining remote work with in-person collaboration. Tide is committed to empowering small businesses and fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.

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

Responsibilities

• Define, own and maintain 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)
• Work 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
• Work closely with product owners, mobile & web engineers, data scientist and other business members to translate requirements into well-engineered solutions
• Make 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with event driven microservice or message queues
• An understanding of Salesforce integrations

Benefits

• The gross monthly salary for this position ranges from €4,400 to €6,500, depending on your skills, and experience. But we are also open to discussing the salary further, taking into account your expertise and contributions
• MELP - flexible benefit app (50 EUR per month accruing)
• 25 days paid annual leave
• 3 paid days off for volunteering or L&D activities
• Parental Leave days
• Family-Friendly Leave
• Personal L&D budget in the amount of 500 EUR per year
• Mental wellbeing platform Plumm
• WFH equipment allowance
• Sabbatical Leave
• Share options
• Team Events