Head of Engineering
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 engineering strategy, architecture, and delivery for lending products and their underlying platform. You will manage Engineering Managers and senior engineers, work with product, risk, compliance, and business stakeholders, oversee third-party integrations, and remain hands-on with critical technical decisions.
Requirements
- 10+ years of backend engineering experience
- At least 3 years in senior engineering leadership roles
- Experience with microservices, event-driven systems, and distributed systems
- Experience embedding AI tooling and LLMs into engineering workflows
- Experience in regulated environments
- Experience launching products across multiple jurisdictions
- Experience delivering complex systems and third-party integrations
- Ability to translate business goals into a technical roadmap
- Strong mentoring skills
Responsibilities
- Set the architectural direction for the credit platform
- Lead the design and delivery of lending products
- Translate the credit roadmap into shipped outcomes with cross-functional stakeholders
- Own integrations with credit data, payments, and funding providers
- Guide architecture, design, and complex engineering decisions
- Champion system design, security, quality, and AI-native engineering practices
- Mentor engineers and Engineering Managers
- Shape the wider technical strategy for global scaling
Benefits
- Remote-first work
- 25 days of paid annual leave
- 3 paid days off for volunteering or L&D activities
- Private health insurance
- Mental health support platform
- FitPass
- Family-friendly leave according to statutory requirements
- Personal L&D budget
- Share options