Lead Flutter Engineer

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.