Senior Java Engineer

Tide ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

Tides mission is to help our members save time (and money) in the running of their businesses, so they can get back to doing what they love. As one team, we act on data to discover, create and deliver whats best for our members. As a Senior Java Engineer you'll be working on our new and existing projects for our credit, payments, business services, member engagement or financial crime areas. We have a five years roadmap ahead of us with exciting new features and well need you to solve interesting problems. You will be the person who less experienced engineers turn to when seeking advice and the one that ensures that things get done with a professional seal of quality. Joining one of our expanding multidisciplinary agile teams, you will be required to work closely with product owners, architects, mobile engineers, and other business members to translate requirements into well-engineered solutions. You will ideally join our backend community of practices and your input on how to improve processes and maintain a high quality across the backend will be very welcomed. Career progression is as important to us as it is for you! With our expanding teams and business we will encourage you to outgrow your initial responsibilities, if you so desire. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to make a real difference with responsibilities across engineering practices in a rapidly expanding company! About the Tech Technology and our people is what makes Tide possible. We work in autonomous, cross-functional teams where backend, iOS, Android, web, QA, architects, DevOps, agile coaches, data experts and product owners solve difficult problems together to get the job done. We self-organise and discuss technical challenges and set our own guidelines in the different Community of Practices. On the backend we see Java 8 as legacy and use Java 11+ for our micro-services. We provide RESTful APIs to our colleagues in the frontend, but also use gRPC for internal service-to-service communications. Spring Boot is our work horse, but we are open to new experiments. We are cloud-native and run everything on AWS. Youll see containers (Docker), queues (SNS+SQS) and events everywhere. The nature of our business naturally fits with relational databases, but we have also found some use cases for NoSQL. Our frontends have done an incredible job at consuming our APIs and providing the best UX to our members. They are fully native Android and iOS apps or Angular 2+ web apps. DevOps provides vital infrastructure and operations support and our architects guide us with the long term vision. About You Were an international scale up, were busy! If fast paced environments, cross team exposure, inquisitive freedom and the ability to have a real impact on a rapidly growing scale up appeals to you, then you already have the mind of a Tidean. If you have that along with the following experience, wed love to hear from you. The non-negotiables: * Extensive experience building server-side applications and detailed knowledge of the relevant programming languages for your stack (i.e Java 8 or newer). * Sound knowledge of a Java backend framework (e.g. Spring/Spring Boot). * Experience with microservices and implementing and consuming RESTful APIs. * Experience engineering scalable and reliable solutions. * A mindset of delivering secure, well-tested and well-documented software. * Experience with relational databases. The highly desirables: * Exposure to continuous integration, delivery and deployment. * Experience integrating to third parties. * Comfortable working in agile methodologies, ideally Scrum. * Ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience. About Us Tide is the leading provider of UK SME business accounts and one of the fastest growing FinTechs in the UK. Thats not an unfounded boast - we have over 180,000 members (what we like to call our customers, over two percent market share, and have raised over 120m in funding. SMEs have been underserved and overlooked by traditional banks for years. In an entrepreneurial age where everyone is expected to take a shot, traditional banks have not evolved with the needs of the market. Thats where Tide comes in. With quick on-boarding, low fees and innovative features, we thrive on making data driven decisions to help SMEs save both time and money. Were also one of LinkedIns top 10 hottest UK companies to work for, winner of Best Use of Technology (Growth Finance Awards); Best Banking Provider (Contracting Awards); Innovative Product of the Year (Growth Finance Awards) and were listed in the Top 100 FinTech Disruptors and The Startups 100. And thats just for 2019. Benefits Here at Tide, not only do we love what we do, but we love the people who do it. Thats why we look after our Tideans with: * 25 days holiday * Flexible working * Vitality Healthcare, including discounted gym and even free cinema tickets! * Mental wellbeing - we take this seriously. You will have access to unlimited