Director of Engineering
Tide is a UK business-banking fintech for small and medium enterprises (tide.co), a Speedinvest portfolio company.
About Tide
Tide is a UK financial-technology company providing business banking and financial services to small and medium enterprises (tide.co). It is a portfolio company of Speedinvest.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead the technical direction and standards for frontend applications. You will partner with Staff Engineers, lead Engineering Managers, address monorepo workflow bottlenecks, improve release engineering and deployment automation, and promote AI-enabled client experiences.
Requirements
- Lead significant engineering organisations.
- Understand high-scale frontend architecture.
- Debate technical trade-offs to achieve business outcomes.
- Apply frontend best practices pragmatically.
- Improve efficiency and modernise mobile release cycles.
- Connect technical foundations with team velocity.
- Communicate technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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 improve engineering leverage.
- Advocate for product virtualisation and observability systems.
- Deliver a modern release engineering model with comprehensive automation.
- Prioritise high-frequency, predictable deployment cycles.
- Provide thought leadership on AI and agentic client-side solutions.
- Explore AI approaches to optimise frontend performance, automate interactions, and personalise member experiences.
Benefits
- Share options.
- Remote-first work.
- 25 days of paid annual leave.
- 3 paid days off for volunteering or learning and development activities.
- Private health insurance.
- Mental health support platform.
- FitPass.
- Family-friendly leave according to statutory requirements.
- Personal learning and development budget.