Senior GoLang Engineer

About this role

Requirements

• Product Mindset: You think about users, not just code.
• Go Expertise: Strong experience building server-side applications in Go (comfortable with latest idioms).
• Microservices: Sound knowledge of backend frameworks and writing microservices that expose/consume RESTful APIs.
• Cloud-Native: Experience engineering scalable and reliable solutions in a cloud-native environment (CI/CD fundamentals, practical Agile).
• Quality Mindset: Mindset of delivering secure, well-tested, well-documented software that integrates with third-party providers.
• Versatility: Comfortable in full-stack environments (we value versatility).
• Mentorship: Specialist in your field with a desire to mentor others and contribute beyond your immediate tasks.
• Bonus: Payroll/fintech domain knowledge, internationalization experience.
• WHAT YOU’LL GET IN RETURN:
• 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 Multisports card
• Food vouchers
• Snacks, light food, drinks in the office
• WFH equipment allowance
• Flexible working from home
• Sabbatical Leave
• Share options
• 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.

About Tide

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. Tide is transforming the small business banking market with over 1.8 million members globally across the UK, India, Germany and France. 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 both time (and money) so they can get back to doing what they love. Tide facts: Tide is available for UK, Indian, German and French SMEs Over 1.8 million members: 800,000 UK and 1,000,000 in India and growing rapidly Over $300 million raised in funding Over 2,500 Tideans globally - we’re diversity champions! 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 and New Delhi, and in Berlin, Paris and Luxembourg. ABOUT THE TEAM The Payroll team is building payroll software that's genuinely easy to use, a rarity in this space. We operate with startup speed and autonomy, scaling our product to Tide's 1.6 million members while tackling the complexity of UK payroll compliance. We work on a modular Go monolith that integrates with Tide's microservices ecosystem. Our architecture is designed for composability: discrete packages (dividends, tax, employees) that can evolve into standalone services as we scale. Key challenges ahead: Internationalizing our UK-centric product (HMRC, tax calculations) for multi-country support. Scaling to Tide's full customer base. Maintaining product velocity while ensuring reliability. This role suits product engineers, people who care about what they build, not just how. ABOUT THE ROLE Own services end-to-end: you design it, you build it, you run it Ship across the stack (if you want), frontend, other services, wherever the problem lives Deploy to production from week one (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, EKS) Shape our internationalization architecture as we expand beyond the UK Design and build payroll modules (tax calculations, dividends, employee management) in Go 1.25 with PostgreSQL and Redis Work directly with Product on user needs and HMRC compliance Contribute to a 200+ service ecosystem using SNS+SQS Use DataDog for observability; RESTful APIs with generated TypeScript types for frontend integration