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Lead Flutter Engineer

Location: United Kingdom
Department: Engineering
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ABOUT TIDE

At Tide, we are building a finance 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 used by over 1 million small businesses across the world and is available to UK, Indian and German SMEs. Headquartered in central London, with offices in Sofia, Hyderabad, Delhi, Berlin and Belgrade, Tide employs over 1,800 employees.  

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.  

What we’re looking for:

As an Engineer at Tide you will be working on the designing, creating and running the rich product catalogue in one of our Business areas (e.g. Payments Service, Business Service). We have a long roadmap ahead of us and rarely run out of interesting problems to tackle.

This role offers an exceptional opportunity to make a real difference by taking ownership of engineering practices in a rapidly expanding company! We trust and empower our engineers to make real technical decisions that affect multiple teams and shape the future of Tide’s Global One Platform.

We work in small autonomous teams, grouped under common domains owning the micro-frontends that makes Tide a great application. We self-organise, gather together to discuss technical challenges, and set our own guidelines on our Community of Practice regardless of where one currently stand in our Growth Framework. We are focus on deliver a WOW! experience whilst ensuring a resilient, error-free and scalable codebase.

 

As a Mobile Engineer you’ll be:

  • You will be learning and sharing knowledge with our engineers on new things often, as we believe in experimentation, T-shaped engineering and collaborative learning for career growth

  • You will be working on our new and existing products for our Business Areas. We have an exciting roadmap with brand new features and we will need you to solve interesting problems

  • You will have the opportunity to make a difference by leveraging your experience connecting with less experienced engineers, collaborating and cheering together

  • Joining one of our expanding multi-disciplinary agile teams, you will work together with product owners, UI/UX designers, architects, engineers, and other business members to translate requirements into well-engineered solutions

  • You will join our Flutter Community of Practices, and your input on how to improve processes and maintain high quality across the team will be very welcome

  • 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

To learn more about how we develop out application, please check us out on Medium.com 

Our company is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse environment, that fosters cooperation in everything we do. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to make a real difference with responsibilities across engineering practices in a supportive and rapidly expanding company!

 

What makes you a great fit:

  • Working experience with Flutter as a Software Engineer

  • Experience with popular Flutter libraries, tools and its lifecycle

  • Passionate about building great products in small, autonomous, agile teams

  • A passion for automation tests and experience writing testable code

  • Experience building sleek, high-performance user interfaces and complex Mobile apps that successfully shipped to customers

 

Our Philosophy and Tech Stack (Whilst expertise in all isn't mandatory, eagerness to learn is):

  • We utilise the latest iterations of Flutter and Dart

  • We use popular and trusted plugins, packages, and tools, preferring leveraging existing solutions over reinventing the wheel.

  • We adopt a modular approach in building our applications, viewing each small package akin to a Lego block. More on our approach can be found here.

  • With Melos, we handle an extensive Dart codebase, featuring over 300 packages and around 2 million lines of code.

  • We manage state and dependency injection efficiently using flutter_bloc, get_it and injectable.

  • Our application navigation leverages auto_route and flow_builder.

  • We approach the backend communication implementation using freezed, json_serializable, retrofit, and dio interceptors. More about this approach here.

  • We heavily rely on code generation with mason and build_runner.

  • i69n is our tool of choice for localisation. You can find how we do it here.

  • We're deeply committed to Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) tests, and we use bdd_widget_test to help us on that. You can find more here.

  • Firebase Suite, DataDog, LaunchDarkly, and Segment assist us in tracking, monitoring, and deploying securely.

  • Our CI/CD pipelines and weekly releases are facilitated by GitHub and GitHub actions.

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:

  • Flexible working options
  • Share options 
  • Group Life Insurance 
  • Vitality Health Insurance, with a proactive focus on mental and physical wellbeing
  • 25 days holiday with the ability to buy extra days
  • 3 days for L&D or volunteering time off per year
  • We invest in your development with a £1,000 professional L&D budget per year
  • Access to ‘salary sacrifice’ benefits such as Cycle to Work scheme and pension contribution
  • Spacious brand-new office near Old Street with an all-day snacks bar
  • Enhanced family-friendly leave
  • Sabbatical leave
TIDE 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.

#LI-GI1 
#LI-Hybrid
#LI-Remote 

 

 

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.

 

At Tide, we thrive on diversity, embracing various backgrounds and experiences. We welcome all individuals regardless of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. Our inclusive culture is key to our success, helping us build products that meet our members' diverse needs. We are One Team, committed to transparency and ensuring everyone’s voice is heard.

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