Principal Engineer, Tide
Admin Services
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Business accounts for SMEs
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1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To save businesses time and money - so they can get back to doing what they love.
Role
Who you are
- This role offers the opportunity to influence the entire Admin Services portfolio, drive innovation, and shape Tide’s payments strategy as we scale globally
- 10+ years of backend engineering experience
- Strong experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, and distributed computing
- Proficient in Java 17, relational databases, and modern cloud-native development, with expertise in designing scalable, low-latency financial systems
- Hands-on experience designing fault-tolerant, high-availability architectures for payments
- Proven ability to deliver 3rd party integrations, including influencing the provider's delivery and roadmaps
- Ability to translate strategic goals into a clear technical roadmap and effectively communicate the “why” behind technical decisions
What the job involves
- Tide’s Admin Services speedboat is responsible for building and maintaining the administrative tools that our Members need to run their businesses more efficiently saving them time and money
- The domain consists of multiple cross-functional product engineering teams, each focused on specific areas of administrative tools including Accounting, Bills Payable, Expense Management and Payroll
- Our teams operate in a modern microservices architecture, ensuring high availability, scalability, and resilience
- As a Principal Engineer, you will be a technical leader, playing a pivotal role in shaping the future of Tide’s Admin Services
- Managing the Engineering Managers (EMs) within the domain, this role is focused on technical leadership, architecture, and engineering strategy
- As a Principal Engineer you will:
- Defining and driving the architectural direction for Tide’s Admin Service systems, ensuring scalability, resilience, and compliance
- Leading the design and development of real-time, high-volume solutions
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams (Product, Compliance, Business) to enhance Tide’s administrative offerings
- Integrating with third-party providers and internal services, including payments, accounting solutions providers and bill portals
- This is a technically hands on role. Getting directly involved in your architecture, providing hands-on technical guidance, ensuring best practices in software engineering, security, and system design
- Managing and mentoring engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
- This role offers the opportunity to influence the entire Admin Services portfolio, drive innovation, and shape Tide’s payments strategy as we scale globally
- Our teams build loosely coupled microservices, enabling fast, autonomous development. Our architecture prioritizes scalability, security, and resilience, ensuring seamless financial transactions. We use:
- Backend: Java (17+), Spring Boot
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Messaging: Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS
- Infrastructure: Kubernetes (EKS), AWS
- Frontend: Flutter (Mobile), Angular (Web)
Our take
Small businesses and sole traders are still underserved by most traditional banks. Tide is solving that problem by offering speedy, affordable and effective financial services tailored to SMEs.
Since its launch, Tide has gained considerable traction among small businesses. This is largely thanks to its fast onboarding times, low fees and the diversity of products, which include a number of accountancy tools. And headed up by a former RBS, C&A and Optanus executive, it is certainly in a unique position within the financial services market.
Having built a strong user base of over 1M customers globally, with 650,000 members in the UK. Through further expansion across Europe and continual addition of 'first-of-its-kind' features, Tide is well set to secure a larger market share.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2023
$24.6m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jul 2021
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $289m
Company benefits
- Flexible working:A flexible working policy that allows most teams to work from home when they need to
- Family-friendly leave: We go above and beyond the statutory requirement for maternity and paternity leave
- Paid volunteering leave: You’re encouraged to take three days a year as paid volunteering leave for your chosen charity or organisation
- Holiday leave: 25 days a year of paid holiday leave, plus bank holidays
- Sabbatical leave: Take a well-deserved break and come back refreshed
- Extra unpaid leave: Extra time off is available beyond your annual leave allocation
- We keep the team fed: Breakfast, snacks and hot drinks are provided daily, along with regular morning teas and catered events
- Personal development: Personal development budget is available for each Tidean to pursue additional training related to their role
- Private health cover: Private healthcare from Vitality, that includes the ability to earn discounts and rewards for having a healthy lifestyle
- Mental wellbeing : 24/7 Employee assistance, unlimited cognitive behavioural therapy, subsidised mindfulness and relaxation app
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Dr Oliver Prill
(CEO)Began their career as a Consultant at McKinsey. They also held the role of CEO at both C&A Bank and Optanus, and was COO of Kreditech Holding before joining Tide in 2018.
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