Engineering Manager - Accounts Platform

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Lead the Accounts team (9 engineers: backend, mobile, web) through the ledger split, including helping shape how engineers map to each team and sequencing the transition
• ▹Work with the existing team to define the technical seam: ledger writes, consistency guarantees, schema ownership versus account opening, lifecycle and statements
• ▹Set the engineering direction for the Ledger Team post-split: performance, availability, consistency, long-term architecture
• ▹Own system stability and operational reliability: SLOs, observability, on-call practice
• ▹Partner with product, compliance and internal operations teams so that what gets built is accurate, supportable and compliant across all markets
• ▹Grow engineers at every level, from early-career to senior
• ▹Align with other EMs across Banking on cross-cutting infrastructure decisions

Requirements

• ▹Meaningful engineering management experience: you have led teams through real delivery, not just been a strong tech lead; the quality of that experience matters, not the number of years
• ▹A solid backend engineering foundation before moving into management, enough to earn credibility with the team and get into the detail when it matters
• ▹Experience leading distributed, remote-first teams across time zones
• ▹Proven experience leading technical teams, aligning with senior leadership on deliveries, and partnering with product
• ▹Fintech or banking domain experience: you know the regulatory surface and what it means to run systems where correctness is not optional
• ▹Strong grasp of high-volume distributed systems: consistency models, fault tolerance, reliability patterns, SLOs and SLAs, observability tooling
• ▹Technically fluent: you can read the code, follow the architecture and engage meaningfully with design decisions and production problems
• ▹Backend engineering in a strongly-typed language (the stack is Java/Spring Boot; we want someone confident in a similar language and willing to engage with ours)
• ▹Experience with microservices in a cloud-native environment (AWS-heavy)
• ▹Relational database engineering at scale: transactions, consistency guarantees and write performance at volume
• ▹Event-driven and async systems experience
• ▹Distributed systems migrations at scale
• ▹Exposure to agentic or AI-integrated systems and engineering practices
• ▹You set technical direction and hold others to it; you are the person the team turns to when something is hard
• ▹You communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders (compliance, finance operations, risk) without losing precision

Nice to have

• ▹High-volume transaction processing experience, whether in payments, FX or similar domains

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Gross annual salary of €68,400 to €85,500, open to further discussion based on expertise and contributions
• ▹25 days paid annual leave
• ▹3 paid days off for volunteering or L&D activities
• ▹Extended maternity and paternity leave covered by the company
• ▹Personal L&D budget of 500 EUR per year
• ▹Additional health and dental insurance
• ▹Mental wellbeing platform
• ▹Fully covered Multisports card
• ▹Food vouchers
• ▹Snacks, light food and drinks in the office
• ▹WFH equipment allowance
• ▹Flexible working from home
• ▹Sabbatical leave
• ▹Share options

About the company

Tide offers business accounts and related banking services, plus invoicing and accounting tools, to SMEs in the UK, India, Germany and France. It serves over 2 million members.