Engineering Manager, Core Infrastructure

ABOUT TIDE

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.

Tide is transforming the small business banking market and now supports over 2 million members globally across the UK, India, Germany and France.

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.

Tide facts

• Tide is available for UK, Indian, German and French SMEs
• Over 2 million members globally and rapidly growing
• Over $300 million raised in funding
• 3,000 Tideans globally
• 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
• 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

ABOUT THE TEAM:

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.

The team mission is to provide product engineers a platform so they can build great products for our members without directly provisioning cloud infrastructure.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Tide is hiring for a proven Engineering Manager to lead the team.

As the successful candidate you will

• Lead: Hire, coach, and set clear goals for a team of engineers.
• Plan: Develop a roadmap for architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, and capacity for our infrastructure, databases, and Kubernetes clusters.
• Protect: Make sure our platforms meet their targets for availability and security.
• Empower: Reduce the time that product engineers need to deploy and run services on the platform.
• Control cost: Help product engineering teams make cost-efficient choices for services that run on our platform.
• Collaborate: Share team context and build cross-team relationships.
• Balance priorities: Weigh technical decisions against team and company goals.
• Measure: Track team productivity with metrics such as DORA and SPACE, and drive measurable improvement.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR