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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will hire, coach, and set goals for infrastructure engineers while remaining technically hands-on. You will define infrastructure roadmaps, maintain availability and security, improve platform deployment experience, guide cost-efficient service choices, collaborate across teams, and use DORA and SPACE metrics to improve delivery.
Requirements
- 10+ years of distributed computing experience
- 3+ years of engineering leadership experience
- Computer Science or related degree
- AWS or GCP
- Security guardrails in regulated environments
- Production Kubernetes
- GitOps
- ArgoCD
- AI tools
- Stakeholder management
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
Responsibilities
- Hire, coach, and set goals for engineers
- Develop infrastructure architecture, upgrade, autoscaling, and capacity roadmaps
- Maintain platform availability and security targets
- Reduce product engineers' time to deploy and operate services
- Guide cost-efficient platform service choices
- Build cross-team relationships and share team context
- Balance technical decisions with team and company priorities
- Track DORA and SPACE metrics and improve team productivity
Benefits
- 25 days paid annual leave
- 3 paid days off for volunteering or learning and development activities
- Extended maternity and paternity leave
- Annual learning and development budget of 500 EUR
- Health and dental insurance
- Mental wellbeing platform
- Multisports card
- Food vouchers
- Office snacks, light food, and drinks
- Work-from-home equipment allowance
- Flexible working from home
- Sabbatical leave
- Share options