Senior Backend Engineer (Python)

Architus is collaborating with Tide, a growing leader in banking technology, on strategic projects, and we are looking for a Senior Java Engineer to join their innovative team.

About Tide

Tide recently established a branch in Lithuania, currently home to 30 engineers, with plans for significant expansion next year. Tide is building an innovative finance platform designed to help small businesses save both time and money. In addition to providing business accounts and banking services, Tide offers a comprehensive suite of connected administrative solutions, ranging from invoicing to accounting.

Launched in 2017, Tide is now trusted by over 1 million small businesses worldwide and is available to SMEs in the UK, India, and Germany. With its headquarters in central London and offices in Sofia, Hyderabad, Delhi, Berlin, and Belgrade, Tide employs over 1,800 people.

As Tide continues to grow rapidly and expand into new markets, the company is always seeking passionate and driven teammates. Join Tide in its mission to empower small businesses and help them save time and money.

The Opportunity

Tide is looking for an experienced Backend Engineer with excellent programming skills and a passion for developing applications or improving existing ones, we would like to meet you. As an Engineer at Tide, you’ll report directly to the People Manager and Staff Engineer (Functional) and work in a team of highly skilled Engineers.

You’ll work closely with their tech team to ensure system consistency and improve user experience. Ultimately, you should be able to develop and maintain functional and stable web applications to meet both the company’s and their customer’s needs.

They work in an agile fashion, small cross functional squads, grouped under common domains owning the full lifecycle of some microservices in Tide’s service catalogue. You’ll bring new ideas, and become an integral part of the process of continuously improving their product.  Outside of working in your squad you will discuss technical challenges, in their different Communities of Practice.

Key responsibilities

• Defining, owning and maintaining the services your team owns from our service catalogue that fall in one of the domains (you design it, you build it, you run it, you scale it globally).
• Working 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.
• Working closely with product owners, mobile & web engineers, data scientist and other business members to translate requirements into well-engineered solutions.
• Making key contributions to their Community of Practice. You will apply your extensive experience on their problem domain and existing guidelines to become a true beacon of best practices among your fellow engineers.
• Career progression is as important to them as it is for you, and they, therefore, have put in place a Tide Growth Framework to guide you. With their expanding teams and business, they will encourage you to outgrow your initial responsibilities, if you so desire.

• Proven work experience as a Python Developer or a strong desire to acquire expertise in this programming language.
• Basic understanding of software engineering fundamentals (SOLID, ACID, Testing).
• Hands-on experience with AWS and frameworks such as: Django, FastAPI and Flask would be an advantage.
• Extensive experience integrating with or creating REST APIs.
• (Desirable) Experience working with event driven microservice or message queues.
• (Desirable) An understanding of Salesforce integrations.
• 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.

Tech stack overview:

• Python
• AWS (including Lambda, Fargate, EKS, SQS, SNS, SES and S3)
• Postgres
• Google BigQuery
• Terraform
• Sentry.

• The gross monthly salary for this position ranges from €4,858 to €7,458 (before taxes-Lithuania), 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.
• 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.