Director of Frontend Excellence – Mobile & Web

Tide

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 120,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+
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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.

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