Engineering Manager, Financial Services

At Tide we help SMEs save time and money in the running of their businesses by not only offering business accounts and related banking services but also a comprehensive set of highly usable and connected administrative solutions from invoicing to accounting.

Tide is transforming the small business banking market and now supports over 2 million members globally across the UK India Germany and France.

Using advanced technology all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind. With quick onboarding low fees and innovative features we thrive on making data driven decisions to serve our mission: to help SMEs save time and money so they can get back to doing what they love.

Tide facts:

• Tide is available for UK Indian German and French SMEs
• Over 2 million members across UK and India
• Over $300 million raised in funding
• Over 2800 Tideans globally
• Recognised with Great Place to Work certification three years in a row and among Indias Top 50 Best Workplaces in Banking Financial Services and Insurance in 2026
• We have offices in Central London with a member support and technology centre in Sofia Bulgaria technology centres in Serbia Romania Lithuania and Hyderabad and offices in Gurugram New Delhi Berlin Paris and Luxembourg

• Full Stack Leadership: Proven track record directly managing coaching and developing cross-functional teams of Backend Mobile and Web engineers.
• Technical Depth & T-Shaped Leadership: A platform- and tech stack-agnostic engineering leader who is an expert in at least one core domain/platform (e.g. backend or mobile) with the proven ability to translate those core software engineering principles to guide mentor and architect solutions across other platforms in a T-shaped leadership model. Extensive experience building robust applications server-side engineering mobile app deployment architecture and scalable system design.
• Domain Expertise: Experience in FinTech specifically within Acquiring In-Person Payments ePOS systems or payment gateway integrations is highly desirable.
• Architecture & Scale: Experience engineering scalable reliable solutions in a cloud-native environment managing microservices and implementing RESTful APIs and event-driven systems.
• Partner Integrations: Proven experience designing systems that seamlessly integrate with complex third-party vendors hardware providers and external payment networks.
• End-to-End Ownership: Full ownership of technical solutions across their entire lifecycle championing engineering best practices from development and testing to production deployment and monitoring.
• Strategic Execution: A technical hands-on leader who can guide architecture decisions translate complex product strategy into reliable platform solutions and communicate technical concepts seamlessly to stakeholders.

• 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 SNSSQS and Kafka to make them reliable
• Primary datastores are PostgreSQL via RDS or Aurora (we are heavy AWS users)
• Docker Terraform ArgoCD and EKS provided by the Cloud team to run the platform
• DataDog for monitoring observability and automated SLOs
• GitHub Semgrep and solid testing to power the CI/CD pipelines - new joiners are encouraged to have something deployed to production in their first week
• Angular on Web Flutter for our mobile app but from time to time we use Swift and Kotlin
• Fivetran/BigQuery/Looker for the BI insights and Python/FastAPI/Faust some ML libs for the automated decisioning and risk management

WHAT YOULL GET IN RETURN:

• Competitive Compensation - competitive salary and share options
• Time Off Generous annual leave on top of bank holidays.
• Parental Leave Paid maternity paternity and adoption leave to support your family journey.
• Sabbatical Extended unpaid and paid leave options after completing milestone years with Tide.
• Health Insurance Private family insurance with additional OPD coverage and top-up options.
• Life & Accident Cover Comprehensive accidental and life insurance protection.
• Mental Wellbeing Access to therapy sessions courses meditations and workshops.
• Volunteering & Development Days Paid days annually for volunteering or personal growth.
• Learning & Development Annual budget for books courses coaching and more.
• WOO (Work Outside the Office) Work from abroad for up to 90 days annually.
• Home Office Setup Contribution towards setting up your home office
• Laptop Ownership Keep your old laptop and get a new one when its time for a replacement.
• Snacks & Meals Office perks with snacks coffee tea and lunch (location dependent).

Tidean Ways of Working

At Tide were Member First and Data Driven but above all were 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.

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 everyones 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 everyones voice is heard.

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