We hire slowly and on purpose.
Tidewell is eleven people spread across five countries. We have been
profitable since year two and have no investors to please, which mostly
means we can say no to things.
11people
5countries
2019founded
0investors
Open roles
Backend engineer
Remote in Europe · full time · Go, Postgres
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Support engineer
Remote in Europe · full time · CET working hours
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Technical writer
Remote · part time, 20 h/week · docs and help centre
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Nothing that fits? Write anyway. We keep good applications
on file and have hired from them twice.
How we work
Fully remote, no core hours beyond a two-hour overlap with CET. We write
things down rather than meet: one weekly call for the whole company,
everything else asynchronous.
- Four-day weeks in July and August, at full pay.
- Laptop and desk budget, renewed every three years.
- No on-call rota. The people who build a service handle its incidents
during their own hours, and we design accordingly.
- Salary bands are published internally and identical across countries.
We do not have a ping-pong table and are not a family. We are colleagues
who like the work and go home at a reasonable hour.
The process
- A short reply. Tell us what you have built and why it was hard.
No cover letter template, please — we can tell.
- A call, 45 minutes. Mutual questions. We will describe the
actual day-to-day, including the boring parts.
- A paid exercise. Four to six hours, at your pace, paid at
contractor rate. Real problem from our backlog, not a puzzle.
- Two conversations. One technical, one with whoever you would
work alongside.
- Offer or a real explanation. If it is a no, you will hear the
reason within two working days.
Whole thing takes about three weeks. If it takes longer, that is on us
and we will say so.