<div class="content-intro"><h3><strong>A</strong><strong>BOUT TIDE</strong></h3> <p>At Tide, we help SMEs save time and money in the running of their businesses by not only offering business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly usable and connected administrative solutions, from invoicing to accounting.</p> <p>Tide is transforming the small business banking market and now supports over 2 million members globally across the UK, India, Germany and France.</p> <p>Using advanced technology, all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind. With quick onboarding, low fees and innovative features, we thrive on making data driven decisions to serve our mission: to help SMEs save time and money so they can get back to doing what they love.</p> <p><strong>Tide facts:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Tide is available for UK, Indian, German and French SMEs</li> <li>Over 2 million members globally and rapidly growing</li> <li>Over $300 million raised in funding</li> <li>3,000 Tideans globally</li> <li>Recognised with Great Place to Work certification three years in a row, and among India’s Top 50 Best Workplaces in Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance in 2026</li> <li>We have offices in Central London, with a member support and technology centre in Sofia, Bulgaria, technology centres in Serbia, Romania, Lithuania and Hyderabad and offices in Gurugram, New Delhi, Berlin, Paris and Luxembourg</li> </ul></div><h3>ABOUT THE TEAM: </h3> <p>The Core Infrastructure team provides a containerised cloud environment based on EKS that is the foundation of Tide’s Platform Engineering provision to product engineering teams.</p> <p>The team mission is to provide product engineers a platform so they can build great products for our members without directly provisioning cloud infrastructure.</p> <h3><br>ABOUT THE ROLE: </h3> <p>Tide is hiring for a proven Engineering Manager to lead the team.</p> <p>As the successful candidate you will:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Lead:</strong> Hire, coach, and set clear goals for a team of engineers.</li> <li><strong>Plan:</strong> Develop a roadmap for architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, and capacity for our infrastructure, databases, and Kubernetes clusters.</li> <li><strong>Protect:</strong> Make sure our platforms meet their targets for availability and security.</li> <li><strong>Empower:</strong> Reduce the time that product engineers need to deploy and run services on the platform.</li> <li><strong>Control cost:</strong> Help product engineering teams make cost-efficient choices for services that run on our platform.</li> <li><strong>Collaborate:</strong> Share team context and build cross-team relationships.</li> <li><strong>Balance priorities:</strong> Weigh technical decisions against team and company goals.</li> <li><strong>Measure:</strong> Track team productivity with metrics such as DORA and SPACE, and drive measurable improvement.</li> </ul> <h3><br>WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR: </h3> <p>You are an engineering leader who stays technically hands-on. You know that the biggest challenges need effective delegation and team empowerment.</p> <p>You have:</p> <ul> <li>10+ years of experience in distributed computing</li> <li>3+ years in engineering leadership roles</li> <li>A degree in Computer Science or a related field</li> <li>Detailed knowledge of AWS, GCP, or both, in a regulated environment that requires security guardrails</li> <li>Experience running Kubernetes in production with GitOps (ArgoCD preferred)</li> <li>An understanding of how to use AI tools such as Claude, and how to help your engineers and customers use them efficiently</li> <li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills</li> <li>Experience managing stakeholders across teams and functions</li> </ul> <p>You will stand out if you have:</p> <ul> <li>Platform engineering experience that abstracts Kubernetes complexity into a stable internal product</li> <li>Experience creating and maintaining Kubernetes operators</li> </ul> <h3><strong>OUR TECH STACK:</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>Cloud:</strong> 100% containerised on AWS EKS</li> <li><strong>Infrastructure as code:</strong> Terraform and Terragrunt manage all platform infrastructure</li> <li><strong>Deployments:</strong> ArgoCD with a GitOps approach</li> <li><strong>Custom infrastructure:</strong> Helm and Crossplane manage the databases, S3 buckets, and other resources that each container needs</li> <li><strong>Source control and CI/CD:</strong> GitHub and GitHub Actions</li> <li><strong>Observability:</strong> Coralogix</li> <li><strong>Product backend:</strong> Java, Python, and Go</li> <li><strong>Client apps:</strong> Angular and Flutter</li> </ul> <h3><br>WHAT YOU’LL GET IN RETURN: </h3> <p>Our location-specific employee benefits are designed to cater to the unique needs of Tideans: </p> <ul> <li>The gross annual salary for this position ranges from €72,000 to €<span data-sheets-root="1">101,250</span> but we are also open to discussing the salary further, tak