(17/09/2025) Engineering Manager

ABOUT TIDE At Tide we are building a business management platform designed to save small businesses time and money We provide our members with business accounts and related banking services but also a comprehensive set of connected administrative solutions from invoicing to accounting Launched in 2017 Tide is now used by over 1 million small businesses across the world and is available to UK Indian and German SMEs Headquartered in central London with offices in Sofia Hyderabad Delhi Berlin and Belgrade Tide employs over 2 000 employees Tide is rapidly growing expanding into new products and markets and always looking for passionate and driven people Join us in our mission to empower small businesses and help them save time and money ABOUT THE ROLE As a Engineering Manager at Tide you will be working on the designing creating and running the rich product catalogue of your area We have a long roadmap ahead of us and rarely run out of interesting problems to tackle To name some of the products we are running - we have our own core account payments infrastructure adapted to a variety of partner banks our onboarding flow is a complicated state machine we offer numerous lending products and a ton of business admin tools to help our members run their accounting payroll tax and so on and last but not least - we have tooling to handle our marketing servicing public APIs our investment products and acquiring solutions 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 Staff engineers to make real architectural decisions that affect their domain and shape the future of Tide s One Platform We work in full-stack teams grouped under common domains owning some Products in Tide s product catalogue Our engineers self-organise gather together to discuss technical challenges and set their own guidelines in the different Communities of Practice regardless of where they currently stand in our Growth Framework Defining and owning autonomously part of the target architecture for your domain making sure that all the projects and services in the area follow it Working on early engineering phases to lay the groundwork for the team s in your area Working with the product team to select technology partners Leading the engineers in your team carefully dividing your time between design coding and coaching other team members You will be the person people turn to seeking advice and solutions to difficult problems Regularly aligning your vision and roadmap of the your part of the target architecture with other Staff Engineers and their respective target architectures to ensure the success of complex multi domain initiatives Working closely with product owners mobile web engineers data scientist and other business members to translate requirements into well-engineered solutions Making key contributions to our Community of Practice You will apply your extensive experience on our problem domain and existing guidelines to become a true beacon of best practices among your fellow engineers WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR Have extensive experience 10 years building server-side applications and detailed knowledge of the relevant programming languages for your stack e g Java 8 or newer You don t need to know Java but to be on top of the teams you need to be willing to learn it we already have a lot of microservices written in Java Have a sound knowledge of a backend framework e g Spring Spring Boot Have experience with running microservices and implementing and consuming RESTful APIs in the world of Open Banking often times they are gonna be public Have experience engineering scalable and reliable solutions in a cloud-native environment Demonstrate a mindset of delivering secure well-tested and well-documented software Are willing to own your code and your team s processes from development to production Have exposure to complex solutions in the area of financial payment services Have experience integrating with various third party providers and partners Have experience with relational databases Are comfortable working in an agile environment Have the ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience Have exposure to continuous integration delivery and deployment OUR TECH STACK Java Spring Boot and JOOQ to build the RESTful APIs of our microservices but we welcome people who are used to any strongly typed general purpose programming language Event-driven architecture with messages over SNS SQS and Kafka to make them reliable Primary datastores are MySQL and PostgreSQL via RDS or Aurora we are heavy AWS users Docker Terraform EKS used by the Cloud team to run the platform DataDog and Rollbar to keep it running GitHub with Sonarcloud Semgrep and solid testing to power the CI CD pipelines - new joiners are encouraged to have something deployed to production in their first 2 weeks Angular 2 with ngrx on Web Flutter for the Mobile App Fivetran Snowflake Looker for the BI insights and Python Faust Flask Tecton some ML libs for the automated decisioning and risk management WHAT YOU LL GET IN RETURN Make work work for you We are embracing new ways of working and support flexible working arrangements With our Working Out of Office WOO policy our colleagues can work remotely from home or anywhere in their home country Additionally you can work from a different country for up to 90 days a year Plus you ll get Competitive salary Self Family Health Insurance Term Life Insurance OPD Benefits Mental wellbeing through Plumm Learning Development Budget WFH Setup allowance 25 Annual leaves Family Friendly Leaves Tidean Ways of Working At Tide we re Member First and Data Driven but above all we re One Team Our Working Out of Office WOO policy allows you to work from anywhere in the world for up to 90 days a year We are remote first but when you do want to meet new people collaborate with your team or simply hang out with your colleagues our offices are always available and equipped to the highest standard We offer flexible working hours and trust our employees to do their work well at times that suit them and their team TIDE IS A PLACE FOR EVERYONE At Tide we believe that we can only succeed if we let our differences enrich our culture Our Tideans come from a variety of backgrounds and experience levels We consider everyone irrespective of their ethnicity religion sexual orientation gender identity family or parental status national origin veteran neurodiversity or differently-abled status We celebrate diversity in our workforce as a cornerstone of our success Our commitment to a broad spectrum of ideas and backgrounds is what enables us to build products that resonate with our members diverse needs and lives We are One Team and foster a transparent and inclusive environment where everyone s voice is heard At Tide we thrive on diversity embracing various backgrounds and experiences We welcome all individuals regardless of ethnicity religion sexual orientation gender identity or disability Our inclusive culture is key to our success helping us build products that meet our members diverse needs We are One Team committed to transparency and ensuring everyone s voice is heard You personal data will be processed by Tide for recruitment purposes and in accordance with