Senior Engineer, Python

Summary

Join Tide as a Senior Python Engineer and play a pivotal role in defining, owning, and maintaining key services within our expanding platform. Collaborate with product teams to select technology partners and work alongside backend engineers across multiple agile teams. Contribute to our Community of Practice, sharing your expertise and best practices. We offer a flexible workplace model supporting both in-person and remote work, fostering a strong sense of community. We champion diversity and inclusion, creating a transparent and inclusive environment where everyone's voice is heard. This role offers opportunities for career progression within our Tide Growth Framework.

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
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

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

Benefits

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