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Tide is a fintech platform serving SMEs across the UK, India, Germany, and France with business banking, invoicing, and accounting solutions. The company supports over 2 million members globally and has raised over $300 million in funding.
As an Engineering Manager at Tide, you will lead a cross-functional engineering team comprising Backend, Mobile, and Web engineers, partnering closely with Product Management to own and lead the company's global In-Person Acquiring products. In-Person payments account for 65%+ of Acquiring revenue in key markets, making this a highly visible, high-impact domain.
You will own the technical direction and end-to-end execution of systems powering in-house ePOS solutions, Tap to Pay technologies, cross-platform mobile apps, and complex pricing engines. You will oversee maintenance of highly reliable live products while leading architectural strategy for critical third-party vendor integrations and hardware partnerships. Additionally, you will drive major platform transformation initiatives and lead engineering scaling of localized payment networks (such as QR/UPI) across international markets, alongside rollout toolkits for European expansion.
Tide operates with a remote-first culture, offering flexible working hours and the ability to work from anywhere for up to 90 days annually. The company emphasizes data-driven decision-making, member-first thinking, and inclusive teamwork. Offices are available in Central London, Gurugram, New Delhi, Berlin, Paris, Luxembourg, and technology centers in Sofia, Serbia, Romania, and Lithuania.
Tech stack includes Java, Spring Boot, JOOQ, PostgreSQL, AWS (Docker, Terraform, ArgoCD, EKS), Kafka, DataDog, GitHub, Angular, Flutter, BigQuery, and Python/FastAPI.
Benefits include competitive salary with share options, generous annual leave, paid parental leave, sabbatical options, private family health insurance, life and accident cover, mental wellbeing support, paid volunteering days, annual learning and development budget, home office setup contribution, and laptop ownership.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Proven track record directly managing, coaching, and developing cross-functional teams of Backend, Mobile, and Web engineers
- Platform- and tech stack-agnostic engineering leader with expertise in at least one core domain (e.g., backend or mobile); ability to apply core software engineering principles across platforms in a T-shaped leadership model
- Extensive experience building robust applications, server-side engineering, mobile app deployment architecture, and scalable system design
- Experience in FinTech, specifically within Acquiring, In-Person Payments, ePOS systems, or payment gateway integrations (highly desirable)
- Experience engineering scalable, reliable solutions in cloud-native environments, managing microservices, implementing RESTful APIs and event-driven systems
- Proven experience designing systems that integrate with complex third-party vendors, hardware providers, and external payment networks
- Full ownership of technical solutions across their entire lifecycle, championing engineering best practices from development and testing to production deployment and monitoring
- Technical, hands-on leader who can guide architecture decisions, translate complex product strategy into reliable platform solutions, and communicate technical concepts to stakeholders
