AEM Lead

About Astra:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview:

As a back-end engineer you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the platform/dashboard backend. This would involve developing & maintaining RESTful services for vulnerability management, scan orchestration, inventory management and platform features such as on-boarding, trust centers, certificates, payment integrations, vulnerability ingestion, authentication etc. 

You should have a strong background in backend programming (Symfony preferred, or Laravel) and have experience with an event driven, async & distributed architecture. 

During the first 6 months of your role, you will be involved in the 0->1 journey of two of our upcoming products in our platform along with the respective product owners.

Love solving hard problems? Want to build high impact products rooted in first principles? Is coding your poetry? Join us in shaping the future of cyber security.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Symfony PHP framework. What you create is also what you own.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Collaborate with scanner teams to orchestrate scans, ingest vulnerabilities, configure scanners etc.
• Write clean, well-documented, and efficient code.
• Optimize and refactor existing code to improve performance and reliability.
• Implement security and data protection measures.
• Triage, troubleshoot and upgrade existing systems.
• Ship code to production multiple times a day/week.
• Ensure timely delivery of the features.
• Test your own features, and write test cases for continuous automated testing.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices and standards.

What we are looking for:

• 3 years experience in a similar role or similar working experience.
• Strong background in PHP backend programming. Symfony preferred, or Laravel.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns.
• Experience with an event driven (subscribers/listeners), async (MessageHandlers & job queues) & distributed (load-balanced) architecture.
• Experience with PostgreSQL database and data modeling.
• Understanding of concepts such as Dependency Injection, ORM, data validation, error handling etc.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions (good to have).
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule.
• Knowledge of industry best practices in software development, security, and compliance.
• Knowledge of application & infrastructure security - helps you stand out. 

What We offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company, and working on hard problems that matter.
• Fully remote, agile working environment.
• Good engineering culture with full ownership in design, development, release lifecycle.
• A wholesome opportunity where you get to build things from scratch, improve and ship code to production in hours, not weeks.
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business.
• Experience with the security side of things.
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (next one is to Wayanad).
• Open and supportive culture.
• Health insurance & other benefits for you and your spouse. Maternity benefits included.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust backend services using Core Java and Spring Boot
• Develop and optimize queries in MongoDB, including aggregation and indexing
• Build RESTful APIs and integrate third-party services
• Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code following best practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and implement requirements

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in Core Java
• Strong expertise in Spring Boot (REST APIs, Security, Data)
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB (CRUD operations, schema design)
• Experience with Microservices architecture

We are seeking a skilled Java Developer with 5+ years of experience in Java, Camunda, Apache Camel, Kafka, and Apache Karaf. The ideal candidate should have expertise in workflow automation, message-driven architectures, and enterprise integration patterns. Strong problem-solving skills and hands-on experience in microservices and event-driven systems are required.

You, as a Java Engineer and member of this team, would be working on our new and existing projects for our credit, payments, business services, member engagement or financial crime areas. We have a five years roadmap ahead of us with exciting new features and we’ll need you to solve interesting problems. Your fellow team members will get you up to speed in your business area and will help you develop the skills so that eventually you are the one coaching other new joiners. Joining one of our expanding agile teams, you will be required to work closely with product owners, mobile engineers, and other business members to translate requirements into well-engineered solutions.

You will ideally join our backend Community of Practices, learn from them and eventually propose your own to maintain a high quality across the backend. Career progression is as important to you as it is for us. With our expanding teams and business we will encourage you to outgrow your initial responsibilities. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to make a real difference with responsibilities across engineering practices in a rapidly expanding company!

About the Tech

Technology and our people is what makes Tide possible. We work in autonomous teams where backend, iOS, Android, web, QA, DevOps, agile coaches, data experts and product owners solve difficult problems together to get the job done. We self-organise and discuss technical challenges and set our own guidelines in the different Community of Practices.

On the backend we see Java 8 as legacy and use Java 11+ for our micro-services. We provide RESTful APIs to our colleagues in the frontend, but also use gRPC for internal service-to-service communications. Spring Boot is our work horse, but we are open to new experiments. We are cloud-native and run everything on AWS. You’ll see containers (Docker), queues (SNS+SQS) and events everywhere. The nature of our business naturally fits with relational databases, but we have also found some use cases for NoSQL.

Our frontends have done an incredible job at consuming our APIs and providing the best UX to our members. They are fully native Android and iOS apps or Angular 2+ web apps. DevOps provides vital infrastructure and operations support.

About You

We’re an international scale up, we’re busy! If fast paced environments, cross team exposure, inquisitive freedom and the ability to have a real impact on a rapidly growing scale up appeals to you, then you already have the mind of a Tidean. If you have that along with the following experience, we’d love to hear from you.

The non-negotiables:

• Good commercial experience building server-side applications and detailed knowledge of the relevant programming languages for your stack (i.e Java 8 or newer).
• Sound knowledge of a Java backend framework (e.g. Spring/Spring Boot).
• Exposure to microservices and implementing and consuming RESTful APIs.
• A mindset of delivering secure, well-tested and well-documented software.
• Experience with relational databases.

The highly desirables:

• Exposure to continuous integration, delivery and deployment.
• Some experience integrating to third parties.
• Comfortable working in agile methodologies, ideally Scrum.
• Exposure to common development tools such as IntelliJ, Git, Jira, etc.

Why Tide?

Tide is the leading provider of UK SME business accounts and one of the fastest growing FinTechs in the UK. That’s not an unfounded boast - we have over 200,000 members (what we like to call our customers, over two percent market share, and have raised over £120m in funding.

SMEs have been underserved and overlooked by traditional banks for years. In an entrepreneurial age where everyone is expected to take a shot, traditional banks have not evolved with the needs of the market. That’s where Tide comes in. With quick on-boarding, low fees and innovative features, we thrive on making data driven decisions to help SMEs save both time and money.

We’re also one of LinkedIn’s top 10 hottest UK companies to work for, winner of Best Use of Technology (Growth Finance Awards); Best Banking Provider (Contracting Awards); Innovative Product of the Year (Growth Finance Awards) and we’re listed in the Top 100 FinTech Disruptors and The Startups 100. And that’s just for 2019.

We are looking for Product Developers-Java Technology with hands-on experience in Core java and socket programming with the flair for working on cutting-edge solutions.

Responsibilities and duties:

• Responsible for the development and unit testing of various modules in JAVA and other related technologies. 
• Need to do requirement understanding, preparing initial concept and possible architecture design. 
• Responsible for feasibility analysis and POC development. 
• Ability to understand the product architecture and end-to-end system flow. 
• Ability to relate and analyze tasks as per overall product architecture and philosophy. 
• Work in Agile SCRUM development model and be able to plan, estimate, execute and deliver quality work as per committed timeline. 
• Ability to continuously analyze and contribute to lean processes, quality improvements, product growth, and productivity improvements within the team.

Required Skills: 

• JAVA - Core JAVA Concepts, Socket Communication, Multithreading, Exception Handling, Collections Framework, Reflections, I/O, XML, HTML, JSON, YML
• Database version management tools like Liquibase etc.
• Version control system like GIT. Hands-on experience with strong knowledge of branching, merging,
• Build systems like Maven, Gradle, Ant etc.
• Hands-on experience in running development environment on Unix/Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS).
• Cloud computing experience, Integration with third-party devices, experience in writing REST APIs, shell scripting knowledge will be an added advantage.

  We are looking for Product Developers-Java Technology with hands-on experience in Core java and socket programming with the flair for working on cutting-edge solutions.