Engineering Manager

ABOUT TIDE

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 with over 1.8 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 both 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 1.8 million members: 800,000 UK and 1,000,000 in India and growing rapidly

Over $300 million raised in funding

Over 2,500 Tideans globally - we’re diversity champions!

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 and New Delhi, and in Berlin, Paris and Luxembourg.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As an Engineering Manager at Tide, you will be responsible for building and running the products your team owns, covering everything our members need to run their business, from banking and payments through to administration and operational tooling.

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 Engineering Managers to make real architectural decisions that affect their domain and shape the future of Tide’s Platform.

We operate in domain-aligned, full-stack teams that own products end to end. Engineers self-organise, collaborate on technical challenges, and define shared standards through Communities of Practice.

Leading & Directly managing a cross functional team of 8-12 engineers

Partnering with a Product Manager to form the Product Engineering Duo

Deeply caring about what’s being built as much as the how

Being responsible of the delivery of the team - quality, stability, timelines, dependencies

Being responsible of the tech excellence and architecture within the scope of the team

Driving the continuous improvement of the team performance as measured by DORA

Securing the continuous growth and wellbeing of the engineers on their team

Being hands-on, 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.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Extensive experience (10+ years) building server-side applications and detailed knowledge of of Python, Java, C#, or another similar language

Sound knowledge of a backend framework (e.g. Spring/Spring Boot)

Experience with running microservices and implementing and consuming RESTful APIs

Experience engineering scalable and reliable solutions in a cloud-native environment

A mindset of delivering secure, well-tested and well-documented software

Full ownership of your code and technical solutions across their entire lifecycle, from development to production.

Experience integrating with various third party providers and partners

Sound knowledge and experience working with relational databases

Work effectively in an agile environment, using its practices to deliver value consistently and adapt quickly

Ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience

Apply continuous integration, delivery, and deployment practices in day-to-day development to deliver software reliably to production

A technical hands on leader who is in the details of what the team is working on day to day

Experience leading teams

Experience directly managing people

Our Tech Stack

Python, Java, Spring Boot and JOOQ to build the RESTful APIs of our microservices (but we welcome