Tide is a London-based fintech platform that offers SMEs digital business accounts, payments, invoicing, accounting integrations, expense management and embedded lending products through a single interface.
<div class="content-intro"><h3><strong>A</strong><strong>BOUT TIDE</strong></h3> <p>At Tide, we help SMEs save time and money in the running of their businesses by not only offering business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly usable and connected administrative solutions, from invoicing to accounting.</p> <p>Tide is transforming the small business banking market and now supports over 2 million members globally across the UK, India, Germany and France.</p> <p>Using advanced technology, all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind. With quick onboarding, low fees and innovative features, we thrive on making data driven decisions to serve our mission: to help SMEs save time and money so they can get back to doing what they love.</p> <p><strong>Tide facts:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Tide is available for UK, Indian, German and French SMEs</li> <li>Over 2 million members: 900,000 UK and 1,100,000 in India and growing rapidly</li> <li>Over $300 million raised in funding</li> <li>Over 2,800 Tideans globally</li> <li>Recognised with Great Place to Work certification three years in a row, and among India’s Top 50 Best Workplaces in Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance in 2026</li> <li>We have offices in Central London, with a member support and technology centre in Sofia, Bulgaria, technology centres in Serbia, Romania, Lithuania and Hyderabad and offices in Gurugram, New Delhi, Berlin, Paris and Luxembourg</li> </ul></div><h3><strong>ABOUT THE TEAM:</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re 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. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’ll work closely with our 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 our customer’s needs.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We 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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’ll bring new ideas, and become an integral part of the process of continuously improving our product. Outside of working in your squad you will discuss technical challenges, in our different </span><strong>Communities of Practice</strong>.</p> <h3><strong>ABOUT THE ROLE:</strong></h3> <p><strong>As a Senior Python Engineer you’ll be:</strong><strong> </strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Defining, owning and maintaining the services your team owns from our service catalogue that fall in one of our domains (you design it, you build it, you run it, you scale it globally)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Working with the product team to select technology partners</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Work with backend engineers across multiple agile teams carefully dividing your time between design/refinement, implementation and mentoring other team members</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">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 </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Working closely with product owners, mobile & web engineers, data scientist and other business members to translate requirements into well-engineered solutions</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Making 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 </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Career progression is as important to us as it is for you, and we, therefore, have put in place a Tide Growth Framework to guide you. With our expanding teams and business, we will encourage you to outgrow your initial responsibilities, if you so desire</span></li> </ul> <h3><strong>WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:</strong></h3> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Proven work experience as a Python Developer (working with this as a primary language)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Basic understanding of software engineering fundamentals (SOLID, ACID, Testing)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hands-on experience with AWS and frameworks such as: Django, FastAPI and Flask</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Extensive experience integrating with or creating REST APIs</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Desirable) Experience working with event driven microservice or message queues</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Desirable) An understanding of Salesforce integrations</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience working in Scrum and following Agile development practises</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’re passionate about learning every day and sharing your knowledge and experience every day</span></li> <li style=