Director of 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
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.