Staff Engineer, Backend

Summary

Join Tide as a Staff Engineer and contribute to the design, creation, and operation of a rich product catalog. You will work on a variety of products, including core account/payments infrastructure, onboarding flows, lending products, business admin tools, and marketing/servicing tools. This role offers the opportunity to make a real difference by taking ownership of engineering practices in a rapidly expanding company. You will be empowered to make architectural decisions and work in full-stack teams, collaborating with product teams and other engineers. The position requires extensive experience in server-side application development and a strong understanding of microservices and RESTful APIs. Tide offers a flexible workplace model supporting both in-person and remote work.

Requirements

• Have extensive experience (10+ years) building server-side applications and detailed knowledge of the relevant programming languages for your stack
• Have experience with running microservices and implementing and consuming RESTful APIs (in the world of Open Banking often times they are gonna be public!)
• Have experience engineering scalable and reliable solutions in a cloud-native environment
• Demonstrate a mindset of delivering secure, well-tested and well-documented software
• Are willing to own your code and your team’s processes from development to production
• Have exposure to complex solutions in the area of financial / payment services
• Have experience integrating with various third party providers and partners
• Have experience with relational databases
• Are comfortable working in an agile environment
• Have the ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Have exposure to continuous integration, delivery and deployment

Responsibilities

• Define and own autonomously part of the target architecture for your domain, making sure that all the projects and services in the area follow it
• Work on early engineering phases to lay the groundwork for the team(s) in your area
• Work with the product team to select technology partners
• Lead the engineers in your team carefully dividing your time between design, coding and coaching other team members. You will be the person people turn to seeking advice and solutions to difficult problems
• Regularly aligning your vision and roadmap of the your part of the target architecture with other Staff Engineers and their respective target architectures 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

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
• While remote work is supported, we believe in the power of face-to-face interactions to foster team spirit and collaboration