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 Engineering Managers while owning technical direction and standards for frontend applications. Improve architecture and monorepo workflows, guide technology and workforce decisions, establish observability and virtualisation systems, modernise release engineering, and explore AI solutions for client-side experiences.
Requirements
- Experience leading significant engineering organisations.
- Experience with high-scale frontend architecture.
- Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs.
- Deep understanding of frontend best practices.
- Experience improving engineering efficiency.
- Experience modernising mobile release cycles.
- Systems thinking.
- Ability to connect technical foundations with team velocity.
- Commercial understanding of technical strategy.
- Ability to communicate trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Client Engineering organisation.
- Lead Engineering Managers and partner with Staff Engineers.
- Own frontend technical direction and standards.
- Develop a pragmatic frontend strategy.
- Identify and resolve large-scale monorepo workflow bottlenecks.
- Evaluate the technology stack and workforce model.
- Improve engineering leverage.
- Establish product virtualisation and observability systems.
- Deliver a modern Release Engineering model.
- Implement an automation strategy for predictable deployments.
- Explore AI and agentic solutions for frontend performance and member experiences.
Benefits
- Share options
- Generous annual leave plus bank holidays
- Paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Sabbatical leave
- Salary sacrifice benefits including Nursery and Cycle to Work discounts
- Private family health insurance
- Life and accident cover
- Mental wellbeing support
- Paid volunteering and development days
- Learning and development budget
- Work Outside the Office for up to 90 days annually
- Home office setup contribution
- Laptop ownership
- Daily breakfast, coffee, tea, juices, and snacks