Junior Java Backend Engineer

About Tide

At Tide, we are building a finance & admin platform designed to save small businesses time and money. We provide our members with business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of connected administrative solutions from invoicing to accounting. Launched in 2017, Tide is now the leading business financial platform in the UK with 575,000 SME members (10% market share) and more than 250,000 SMEs in India. Headquartered in London, Tide has over 1,800 Tideans across the UK, Bulgaria, India, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine and Germany. Tide is rapidly growing, expanding into new markets and always looking for passionate and driven people. Join us in our mission to empower small businesses and help them save time and money.   

About the team

As a Junior Java Engineer you will join one of our Backend teams working on a part of our service catalogue that powers one of our core domains (Credit, Payments, KYC, etc.). Together with your new teammates, you will have full ownership over these microservices to design, plan, build, run, monitor and maintain them in a way that drives the products they represent forward.

With our business now becoming global and expanding in multiple countries outside of the UK, you will get a chance to take part in massive initiatives and be encouraged to outgrow your initial responsibilities. You will witness a strong DevOps culture with multiple deployments per day, teams made autonomous by leveraging an architecture of independently deployable services, continuous delivery, experiments and MVPs and one day get to define the Target Architecture that provides our business with its agility.

You will not be alone in that journey - you will work with an Engineering Manager, be onboarded and coached by the Senior engineers on your team and last but not least - be a part of our Backend Community of Practices and Interest groups that define our ways of working and are in the end what made all of the above possible!

About the role
As a Junior Java Backend Engineer you will:

• Be working on Tide’s products in some of our business areas
• Becoming part of one of our expanding agile teams and actively collaborating with your colleagues from the other Backend, Mobile, Web, DevOps, Data, and Product teams at Tide to translate product hypotheses into well-engineered solutions
• Ideally join our backend Community of Practices, learn from them, and propose your own at some point to maintain high quality across the backend. Career progression is as important to you as it is for us

What we are looking for
You will be a great fit for the role if you:

• Have some commercial experience building server-side applications and good knowledge of the relevant programming languages for your stack (i.e Java 17 or newer)
• Have some experience with some Java backend framework (e.g. Spring/Spring Boot)
• Have exposure/understanding of microservices or implementing and consuming RESTful APIs
• Demonstrate a mindset of delivering secure, well-tested, and well-documented software
• Willing to own your code from development to production
• Have some experience with relational databases
• Are comfortable working in agile methodologies, ideally Scrum
• Have utilized common development tools such as IntelliJ, Git, Jira, etc.
• Exposure/understanding to continuous integration, delivery, and deployment is a plus

Our Tech Stack:

On the backend we always use the latest Java LTS for our microservices. We provide RESTful APIs to our colleagues on the client side and our external partners. Spring Boot is our work horse, but we are open to new experiments. We are cloud-native and run everything on AWS. You’ll see containers (Docker), queues (SNS+SQS, Kafka) and events everywhere. The nature of our business naturally fits with relational databases, but we have also found some use cases for NoSQL. The Cloud Engineering team provides us with vital infrastructure and DevOps support on the cloud (as well as some internal tooling). 

What you’ll get in return:

Make work, work for you! We are embracing new ways of working and support flexible working arrangements. With our Working Out of Office (WOO) policy our colleagues can work remotely from home or anywhere in their home country. Additionally, you can work from a different country for up to 90 days a year. Plus, you’ll get:

• 25 days paid annual leave 
• 3 paid days off for volunteering or L&D activities
• Extended maternity and paternity leave covered by the company
• Personal L&D budget in the amount of 1000 BGN per year
• Additional health & dental insurance
• Mental wellbeing platform
• Fully covered Multisport card
• Food vouchers
• Snacks, light food, drinks in the office
• WFH equipment allowance

Tidean Ways of Working

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. Our offices are designed as hubs for innovation and team-building, where we encourage regular in-person gatherings to foster a strong sense of community. 

Tide is a place for everyone

At Tide, we believe that we can only succeed if we let our differences enrich our culture. Our Tideans come from a variety of backgrounds and experience levels. We consider everyone irrespective of their ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity or differently-abled status. We celebrate diversity in our workforce as a cornerstone of our success. Our commitment to a broad spectrum of ideas and backgrounds is what enables us to build products that resonate with our members’ diverse needs and lives. We are One Team and foster a transparent and inclusive environment, where everyone’s voice is heard.

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