Engineering Manager
Tide is a UK business-banking fintech for small and medium enterprises (tide.co), a Speedinvest portfolio company.
About Tide
Tide is a UK financial-technology company providing business banking and financial services to small and medium enterprises (tide.co). It is a portfolio company of Speedinvest.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead and directly manage a cross-functional team of 8–12 engineers. You will partner with a Product Manager, own delivery quality, stability, timelines, dependencies, technical excellence, and architecture. You will remain hands-on through design, coding, and coaching, while improving team performance, engineer wellbeing, and growth.
Requirements
- Have 10+ years of experience building server-side applications
- Know Python, Java, C#, or a similar programming language
- Know a backend framework such as Spring or Spring Boot
- Have experience running microservices and implementing and consuming RESTful APIs
- Have experience building scalable, reliable cloud-native solutions
- Deliver secure, well-tested, and well-documented software
- Own code and technical solutions throughout their lifecycle from development to production
- Have experience integrating with third-party providers and partners
- Have experience with relational databases
- Work effectively in an agile environment
- Communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Apply continuous integration, delivery, and deployment practices
- Have experience leading teams and directly managing people
Responsibilities
- Lead and directly manage a cross-functional team of 8–12 engineers
- Partner with a Product Manager to lead product engineering
- Own delivery quality, stability, timelines, and dependencies
- Own technical excellence and architecture within the team’s scope
- Drive continuous improvement of team performance using DORA metrics
- Support the growth and wellbeing of engineers
- Contribute hands-on through design, coding, coaching, and technical problem-solving
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
- Personal learning and development budget
- Share options
