Director of Engineering, KYX – Regulated AI & Onboarding

Neobankbeat; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health insurance

Parental leave

Sabbatical

WFH options

Laptop provided

Job summary

Tide is seeking a Director of Engineering for KYX to lead the engineering organization behind identity, onboarding and risk scoring. You will unify onboarding and continuous KYX lines, drive AI-enabled workflows, and scale across markets with strong governance.

Ideal candidates bring experience in regulated environments, platform strategy, and measurable delivery outcomes, while building high-performing distributed teams across the UK, EU and India.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering organisations in identity, onboarding, fraud or a regulated decisioning domain.
• Strong track record turning platform investments into measurable outcomes (conversion, due diligence, unit economics).
• Experience deploying ML from development to production at scale and maintaining model performance.

Responsibilities

• Own the KYX engineering strategy and organisation across onboarding, due diligence, monitoring and risk scoring.
• Lead backend, frontend, data science and ML engineering across multiple distributed hubs.
• Scale agentic AI in regulated workflows with governance and oversight.
• Collaborate with KYX Ops, Policy, risk and product teams across regions.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Regulated domain

Platform strategy

Distributed teams

ML in production

Tools

Python

ML frameworks

Job description

Tide is seeking a Director of Engineering for KYX to lead the engineering organization behind identity, onboarding and risk scoring. You will unify onboarding and continuous KYX lines, drive AI-enabled workflows, and scale across markets with strong governance.

Ideal candidates bring experience in regulated environments, platform strategy, and measurable delivery outcomes, while building high-performing distributed teams across the UK, EU and India.