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 lead engineering delivery for a subscriptions platform across multiple markets, owning the technical direction and execution of systems for subscription creation, pricing, and lifecycle management. You manage and develop engineers, establish technical standards, build reliable cloud-native services, and partner with Product, Billing, Payments, Marketing, Data, and Finance.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building server-side applications
- Detailed knowledge of Java
- Knowledge of Spring or Spring Boot
- Experience with microservices
- Experience implementing and consuming RESTful APIs
- Experience building scalable and reliable cloud-native solutions
- Secure, well-tested, and well-documented software practices
- Experience integrating third-party providers and partners
- Experience with relational databases
- Ability to use AI tools and LLMs to improve engineering productivity and software quality
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Experience with continuous integration, delivery, and deployment
- Hands-on technical leadership
- Experience leading teams
- Experience directly managing people
Responsibilities
- Lead engineering delivery for the subscriptions platform
- Own technical direction and execution across subscription creation, pricing, and lifecycle management
- Build scalable, resilient, and extensible platform capabilities
- Manage and develop engineers
- Set technical standards
- Foster ownership and continuous improvement
- Partner with Product and business stakeholders
- Translate product strategy into reliable platform solutions
- Ensure high-quality delivery across the subscription lifecycle
- Collaborate with Billing, Payments, Marketing, Data, and Finance teams
Benefits
- Share options
- Generous annual leave plus bank holidays
- Paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Sabbatical leave
- Private family health insurance
- Life and accident cover
- Mental wellbeing support
- Paid volunteering and development days
- Learning and development budget
- Work Outside the Office for up to 90 days annually
- Home office setup contribution
- Laptop ownership
- Office snacks, coffee, tea, and lunch
- Flexible working hours
- Remote-first working