Engineering Manager Accounts Platform
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 the Accounts team through its transition into separate Accounts and Ledger teams, defining technical boundaries, setting architecture and reliability direction, and owning SLOs, observability, on-call, stakeholder partnerships, and engineer development.
Requirements
- Demonstrated engineering management experience leading teams through delivery.
- Backend engineering foundation.
- Experience leading distributed remote-first teams across time zones.
- Experience leading technical teams, aligning with senior leadership, and partnering with product.
- Fintech or banking domain experience.
- Understanding of regulatory requirements and correctness-critical systems.
- Knowledge of high-volume distributed systems, consistency models, fault tolerance, reliability patterns, SLOs, SLAs, and observability.
- Backend engineering experience in a strongly typed language.
- Experience with microservices in a cloud-native environment.
- Relational database engineering experience at scale, including transactions, consistency guarantees, and write performance.
- Experience with event-driven and asynchronous systems.
- Experience with distributed systems migrations at scale.
- Exposure to agentic or AI-integrated systems and engineering practices.
- Ability to communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Accounts team through the ledger split and sequence the transition.
- Define technical boundaries for ledger writes, consistency guarantees, schema ownership, account opening, lifecycle management, and statements.
- Set the Ledger Team’s technical direction for performance, availability, consistency, and long-term architecture.
- Own system stability and operational reliability through SLOs, observability, and on-call practices.
- Partner with product, compliance, and internal operations teams to deliver accurate, supportable, and compliant solutions.
- Develop engineers at every level.
- Align with other engineering managers on cross-cutting banking infrastructure decisions.
Benefits
- Private Health Insurance
- 3rd Pillar Pension Fund Contribution
- 25 days Paid Annual Leave
- 3 Paid Days off for Volunteering or L&D Activities
- Parental Leave days
- Family-Friendly Leave
- Personal L&D Budget of 500€ per year
- Mental wellbeing platform Plumm
- WFH Equipment Allowance
- Sabbatical Leave
- Share options
- Team Events