Director of Frontend Excellence – Mobile & Web

Tide; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Generous annual leave

Parental leave

Sabbatical

Salary sacrifice benefits

Health Insurance

Life & Accident Cover

Mental wellbeing

Retirement planning

Volunteering & development days

Learning & development

WOO (Work Outside the Office)

Home office setup

Laptop ownership

Snacks & meals

Job summary

Tide is hiring a Director of Engineering to lead the Client Engineering organisation, owning frontend technical direction and standards. You will lead Engineering Managers and partner with Staff Engineers to tackle large-scale frontend challenges across Flutter, Angular, and backend integrations.

You will champion architectural health, pragmatic technology choices, and a release model that supports rapid, reliable deployments, while exploring AI-driven improvements for the client-side experience.

Qualifications

• Seasoned engineering leader with experience running large frontend organizations.
• Ability to debate trade-offs and align technical decisions with business goals.
• Deep understanding of frontend best practices and modernising release cycles.
• Ability to see system-level impacts on team velocity and delivery.
• Proven track record in aligning technical strategy with business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Architectural advocacy and drive frontend strategy with staff engineers.
• Advance technical stewardship and efficiency across Tide's frontend stack.
• Improve product observability and global visibility for stakeholders.
• Deliver modern release engineering with high-frequency, predictable deployments.
• Provide thought leadership on AI and agentic enhancements for the UI.

Skills

Seasoned Leadership

Skilled Collaborator

Frontend Pragmatist

Systems Thinking

Commercial Maturity

Tools

Flutter

Dart

Angular

Java

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Firebase

DataDog

LaunchDarkly

Job description

Tide is hiring a Director of Engineering to lead the Client Engineering organisation, owning frontend technical direction and standards. You will lead Engineering Managers and partner with Staff Engineers to tackle large-scale frontend challenges across Flutter, Angular, and backend integrations.

You will champion architectural health, pragmatic technology choices, and a release model that supports rapid, reliable deployments, while exploring AI-driven improvements for the client-side experience.