Staff Mobile Engineer (Engineer, Mobile - 5)

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Search & Referrals team owns Tide's marketing website and leads the expansion of our referral programme. We are responsible for designing growth loops, scaling user acquisition initiatives, and building product experiences that contribute to Tide's growth. You will work closely with the team to deliver impactful solutions across Tide's marketing and referral experiences.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Staff Mobile Engineer at Tide you will be working on the designing, creating and running the rich product catalogue in one of our Business areas, working across multiple teams. 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 stands in our Growth Framework. We are focused on delivering a WOW! experience whilst ensuring a resilient, error-free and scalable codebase.

As a Staff 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 defining vision and strategies on how we build products for our Business Areas. We have an exciting roadmap with brand new features and we will need you to solve interesting problems.
• Act as a supportive and enthusiastic technical lead, by advocating for best practices on how we deliver the best software for our members based on data while contributing to the wellbeing of the team.
• 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.

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 WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• You have several years of experience as a Software Engineer working with Flutter, native mobile (iOS or Android), or React Native.
• You have experience with popular Flutter libraries, tools and its lifecycle.
• You are passionate about building great products in small, autonomous, agile teams.
• You have a passion for automation tests and experience writing testable code.
• You have experience building sleek, high-performance user interfaces and complex Mobile apps that successfully shipped to customers.
• Experience technically leading Mobile engineers within cross-platform teams, with the ability to develop and mentor less-experienced developers.
• Experience leveraging automation and tooling, focused on Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment.

OUR TECH STACK

• 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

Our location-specific employee benefits are designed to cater to the unique needs of Tideans:

• Competitive Compensation - competitive salary and share options
• Time Off – Generous annual leave on top of bank holidays.
• Parental Leave – Paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave to support your family journey.
• Sabbatical – Extended unpaid and paid leave options after completing milestone years with Tide.
• Health Insurance – Private family insurance with additional OPD coverage and top-up options.
• Life & Accident Cover – Comprehensive accidental and life insurance protection.
• Mental Wellbeing – Access to therapy sessions, courses, meditations, and workshops.
• Volunteering & Development Days – Paid days annually for volunteering or personal growth.
• Learning & Development – Annual budget for books, courses, coaching, and more.
• WOO (Work Outside the Office) – Work from abroad for up to 90 days annually.
• Home Office Setup – Contribution towards setting up your home office
• Laptop Ownership – Keep your old laptop and get a new one when it's time for a replacement.
• Snacks & Meals – Office perks with snacks, coffee, tea, and lunch (location dependent).