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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 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: 900,000 UK and 1,100,000 in India and growing rapidly
Over $300 million raised in funding
Over 2,800 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
ABOUT THE ROLE:
As an Engineering Manager at Tide,
Youre an experienced Engineering Manager with strong technical and people-leadership skills, comfortable operating at scale and driving growth through robust, secure user acquisition and onboarding platforms.
Youll lead the engineering delivery of our onboarding platform across major global marketsincluding the UK, India, Germany (DE), and France (FR)owning the technical direction and execution of systems that power friction-free member sign-ups, verification, and initial account setup.
Youll focus on building scalable, compliant, and extensible capabilities that accelerate international expansion while seamlessly adapting to evolving regulatory and market needs.
Youll manage and develop a team of engineers, setting clear technical standards and fostering a culture of technical rigor, ownership, and continuous operational improvement. Partnering closely with Product and business stakeholders, youll translate global accession strategy into reliable platform solutions, balancing rapid market entry with security, efficiency, and system reliability.
Youll be part of the Member Accession Marketing (MAM) engineering group, collaborating closely with KYX, IAM, MEM, Finance, Marketing, and Compliance teams. Together, youll deliver a secure, frictionless, and fully localized onboarding experience that establishes trust and sets the foundation for long-term member value.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
Extensive experience (10+ years) building server-side applications and detailed knowledge of Java.
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.
Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools and LLMs to improve engineering productivity, software quality, and delivery velocity.
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:
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 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 .
