Director of Client Engineering
Tide is a UK-founded fintech business financial platform providing banking and financial-management services to small businesses and sole traders.
About Tide
Tide Platform Limited operates Tide, offering business accounts, payments, accounting and tax tools, savings, payroll, and business finance. Tide is FCA-authorised for electronic-money and payment services and is not itself a bank; its business bank accounts are provided through partner banks including ClearBank.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Lead Tide’s Client Engineering organisation and set the technical direction and standards for mobile and web applications. Partner with Staff Engineers and Engineering Managers to improve frontend architecture, monorepo workflows, release engineering, observability, automation, and client-side AI capabilities.
Requirements
- Experience leading significant engineering organisations
- Experience with high-scale frontend architecture
- Understanding of frontend best practices
- Experience improving efficiency and modernising mobile release cycles
- Ability to evaluate and communicate technical and organisational trade-offs
- Ability to connect technical foundations with team velocity
- Ability to align technical strategy with business goals
Responsibilities
- Drive a pragmatic frontend strategy with Staff Engineers
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks in large-scale monorepo workflows
- Evaluate the technology stack and workforce model to maximise engineering leverage
- Advocate for product virtualisation and observability systems
- Deliver a modern release engineering model with comprehensive automation
- Provide thought leadership on AI and agentic client-side solutions
Benefits
- Share options
- Generous annual leave in addition to bank holidays
- Paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Paid and unpaid sabbatical options after milestone years
- Private health insurance including extra dental care
- Access to therapy sessions, courses, meditations, and workshops
- Paid volunteering and personal-growth days
- Work from abroad for up to 90 days annually
- Home office setup contribution
- Laptop ownership and replacement laptop
- Fully covered MultiSport card
- Monthly food vouchers
- Daily breakfast, coffee, tea, and juices