Engineering Manager Core Infrastructure
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.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will lead, hire, coach and set goals for infrastructure engineers while remaining technically hands-on. You will create roadmaps for platform architecture, upgrades, autoscaling and capacity. You will improve availability, security, deployment efficiency and cost management, collaborate across teams, and use DORA and SPACE metrics to drive measurable improvements.
Requirements
- 10+ years of distributed computing experience
- 3+ years in engineering leadership roles
- Computer Science or related degree
- Knowledge of AWS or GCP in a regulated environment
- Experience running Kubernetes in production
- GitOps experience, preferably ArgoCD
- Knowledge of AI tools such as Claude
- Written and verbal communication skills
- Cross-functional stakeholder management experience
Responsibilities
- Hire, coach and set clear goals for engineers
- Develop infrastructure roadmaps for architecture, upgrades, autoscaling and capacity
- Ensure platforms meet availability and security targets
- Reduce product-engineering deployment and service-operation time
- Help teams make cost-efficient platform-service choices
- Build cross-team relationships and share team context
- Balance technical decisions with team and company goals
- Track DORA and SPACE metrics and drive improvement
Benefits
- 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
- Share options