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Salary: EUR 7,133 - 10,033 / monthly
Tide is a fintech platform serving over 2 million SMEs globally with business banking, invoicing, and accounting solutions. The company has raised over $300 million and operates offices across the UK, India, Germany, France, and Central/Eastern Europe.
The Core Infrastructure team provides a containerized cloud environment based on AWS EKS that serves as the foundation for Tide's Platform Engineering. The team's mission is to enable product engineers to build great products without directly provisioning cloud infrastructure.
As Engineering Manager for Core Infrastructure, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for the platform that powers Tide's product delivery. Your responsibilities include:
- Hiring, coaching, and setting clear goals for your engineering team
- Developing roadmaps for architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, and capacity planning across infrastructure, databases, and Kubernetes clusters
- Ensuring platforms meet targets for availability and security in a regulated financial services environment
- Reducing deployment friction and operational overhead for product engineering teams
- Helping product teams make cost-efficient infrastructure choices
- Building cross-team relationships and sharing context across the organization
- Balancing technical decisions against team and company goals
- Tracking team productivity using metrics such as DORA and SPACE, driving measurable improvement
The role requires a hands-on engineering leader who understands that effective delegation and team empowerment are essential for solving complex infrastructure challenges. You will work with a modern tech stack including AWS EKS, Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, Crossplane, GitHub Actions, and Coralogix for observability.
Tide operates a flexible workplace model supporting both in-person and remote work, with offices in Vilnius serving as a hub for innovation and collaboration.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 10+ years of experience in distributed computing
- 3+ years in engineering leadership roles
- Degree in Computer Science or related field
- Detailed knowledge of AWS, GCP, or both in regulated environments requiring security guardrails
- Production experience running Kubernetes with GitOps (ArgoCD preferred)
- Understanding of AI tools such as Claude and how to help engineers and customers use them efficiently
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience managing stakeholders across teams and functions
PREFERRED:
- Platform engineering experience abstracting Kubernetes complexity into a stable internal product
- Experience creating and maintaining Kubernetes operators
