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Tide is a fintech platform transforming small business banking across the UK, India, Germany, and France. With over 2 million members globally and $300M+ in funding, Tide offers business accounts, invoicing, accounting, and payment solutions designed for SMEs.
As Engineering Manager, you will lead a cross-functional engineering team (Backend, Mobile, and Web engineers) and partner with Product Management to own and drive the global In-Person Acquiring products. In-Person payments represent 65%+ of Tide's Acquiring revenue in key markets, making this a high-visibility, 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 (QR/UPI) across international markets, alongside rollout toolkits for European expansion.
The tech stack includes Java, Spring Boot, JOOQ for microservices; event-driven architecture with SNS+SQS and Kafka; PostgreSQL via RDS/Aurora; Docker, Terraform, ArgoCD, EKS on AWS; DataDog for monitoring; GitHub and Semgrep for CI/CD; Angular and Flutter for frontend; and BigQuery/Looker for BI.
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 has offices in London, Sofia, Serbia, Romania, Lithuania, Hyderabad, Gurugram, New Delhi, Berlin, Paris, and Luxembourg. Tide has been recognized with Great Place to Work certification three years running and ranked among India's Top 50 Best Workplaces in Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance in 2026.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 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 expert-level depth in at least one core domain (backend or mobile), with proven ability to translate 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 seamlessly 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
