Engineering Manager, Payment Services
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 Accounts team, setting its technical direction and owning delivery and reliability. You will own account opening, management and switching, plus the member-facing transaction experience, define the interface with the ledger, and partner with product, design, compliance and operations while growing engineers across backend, mobile and web.
Requirements
- Meaningful engineering management experience leading teams through delivery
- Experience leading product-driven teams
- Solid backend engineering foundation
- Experience leading distributed remote-first teams across time zones
- Experience aligning with senior leadership and managing dependencies
- Strong grasp of distributed systems, SLOs and observability
- Backend engineering in a strongly-typed language
- Microservices experience in cloud-native environment (AWS)
- Experience designing APIs and data services for mobile and web clients
- Relational database engineering
- Event-driven and async systems experience
- Familiarity with mobile and web delivery (Flutter and Angular or similar)
- Exposure to agentic or AI-integrated systems
Responsibilities
- Lead the Accounts team across backend, Flutter mobile and Angular web
- Define and maintain the interface with the ledger
- Own account opening, account management and account switching (CASS), including regulatory compliance
- Own the member-facing transaction experience end to end
- Set technical direction for read-heavy, data-rich services
- Own system stability and operational reliability including SLOs, observability and on-call practice
- Partner with product, design, compliance and operations
- Grow engineers at every level
- Partner with teams building on the Accounts platform
- Align with other EMs across Banking on shared platform decisions
Benefits
- Share options
- Generous annual leave on top of bank holidays
- Paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Sabbatical
- Private family health insurance with OPD coverage
- Life and accident cover
- Mental wellbeing support
- Paid volunteering and development days
- Learning and development budget
- Work outside the office up to 90 days annually
- Home office setup contribution
- Laptop ownership
- Office snacks and meals
- Flexible working hours
- Remote-first working
