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Salary: EUR 72,000 - 101,250 / annual
Tide is a fintech platform serving over 2 million SMEs globally with business banking and administrative solutions (invoicing, accounting, etc.). 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 (AWS EKS) that serves as the foundation for Tide's Platform Engineering. The team enables product engineers to build and deploy services without directly managing cloud infrastructure.
As Engineering Manager, you will lead the Core Infrastructure team with the following responsibilities:
- Hire, coach, and set clear goals for a team of engineers
- Develop roadmaps for architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, and capacity planning across infrastructure, databases, and Kubernetes clusters
- Ensure platforms meet targets for availability and security
- Reduce deployment and operational friction for product engineers using the platform
- Help product teams make cost-efficient infrastructure choices
- Build cross-team relationships and share context
- Balance technical decisions against team and company goals
- Track team productivity using metrics such as DORA and SPACE, driving measurable improvement
You will be a hands-on engineering leader who delegates effectively and empowers your team to solve complex problems.
Tech stack: AWS EKS, Terraform/Terragrunt, ArgoCD (GitOps), Helm, Crossplane, GitHub/GitHub Actions, Coralogix, Java/Python/Go backends, Angular/Flutter frontends.
Benefits include 25 days paid leave, 3 paid L&D/volunteering days, extended parental leave, €500 annual L&D budget, health/dental insurance, mental wellness platform, multisports card, food vouchers, WFH equipment allowance, flexible working, sabbatical leave, and share options.
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 Kubernetes experience with GitOps (ArgoCD preferred)
- Understanding of AI tools (Claude) and how to help engineers and customers use them efficiently
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience managing stakeholders across teams and functions
Desirable:
- Platform engineering experience abstracting Kubernetes complexity into a stable internal product
- Experience creating and maintaining Kubernetes operators
