Career

About Us

We develop and sell the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product Tideways. Our software provides application performance management, exception tracking and profiling functionality for PHP applications and is used by over 700 customers worldwide.

Tideways was founded in 2016 by Benjamin and his then employer Qafoo and is a self-funded company, growing from customer revenue alone. Our team is currently 7 employees strong and our aim is to build a sustainable, transparent business with a focus on the long-term growth.

How We Work

We are headquartered in Bonn, Germany where our office is located, but everyone works remotely from their homes. Every 3 months, we meet in Bonn for 3 days of on-site workshops, meetings and team building activities.

Work is discussed asynchronously on our company chat (Slack) and in Notion, message boards and issue tracker (GitHub) and few meetings take place during the week (via Zoom).

Everyone has the flexibility to choose their own working hours throughout the day to fit work at Tideways into their life. Our work week has 40 hours in the spring, autumn, winter and 32 hours in the summer. Part-time working is available in all roles. Overtime is the exception and usually compensated by time off within a week or month.

All the processes are designed and automated to get out of your way as much as possible: We promote self-service vacation planning and low-effort time-tracking (with Personio) and travel-planning with your own company issued credit-card and automated expense management (using Pleo).

Our Values

Calm & Down to Earth

Tideways is built for stability and sustainability. Our business decisions prioritize customer experience and economic stability over hyper-growth. Our goal is to provide a product our customers can count on today and in the long term.

Community-rooted

Tideways is a product by developers for developers, and we invite you to engage with us as peers. We have our roots in mind and are giving back to the open-source community that we were brought up in.

Solution-Oriented

We aim to improve our customers’ lives with a high-quality product and fast, friendly customer service. This requires resourcefulness, attention to detail and empowerment within our team.

Continuously Improving

Innovation demands creativity and a willingness to explore new ideas. We strive to be approachable – every feedback and suggestion is welcome and will be evaluated thoroughly.

Honest & Fair

We communicate as openly, honestly, and transparently as possible with everyone we work with and always assume the best in others.

Our Benefits

Benefits at Tideways include:

  • 30 days of paid vacation
  • Summer Hours with reduced working hours to 80% for full salary in June, July, August
  • 2000€ yearly learning budget (conferences, books, workshops, video-trainings)
  • remote work
  • new laptop (MacBook Pro) every 3-4 years
  • support for home office furniture
  • automated salary adjustments every year based on company growth
  • day care costs for official providers paid on top of salary up to 800€ per month

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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