Engineering Manager

Tide; Bengaluru; Remote; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Compensation

Time Off

Parental Leave

Sabbatical

Health Insurance

Life & Accident Cover

Mental Wellbeing

Learning & Development

WOO (Work Abroad)

Home Office Setup

Laptop Ownership

Snacks & Meals

Job summary

Tide is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the onboarding platform powering sign-ups and verification across the UK, India, Germany, and France. You will own the technical direction, drive scalable, compliant solutions, and mentor a growing team of engineers in a remote-first environment.

You will partner with Product, Business, and Compliance to deliver robust, secure, and efficient systems that accelerate international growth while ensuring reliability and governance.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building server-side applications and strong Java knowledge.
• Strong background in backend frameworks (Spring/Spring Boot).
• Experience with microservices, RESTful APIs, and cloud-native environments.
• Focused on secure, well-tested, and well-documented software delivery.
• Full ownership of code and technical solutions through lifecycle.
• Experience integrating with third-party providers and partners.
• Solid knowledge of relational databases.
• Ability to leverage AI tools and LLMs to boost productivity and quality.
• Agile mindset with effective communication to non-technical stakeholders.
• Hands-on leader who mentors teams and directly manages people.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering delivery of onboarding platform across global markets.
• Set technical direction and ensure secure, scalable account setup and verification.
• Build extensible capabilities to support international expansion and evolving regulations.
• Manage and develop a team of engineers with strong technical standards.
• Collaborate with Product, Marketing, Compliance and Finance to translate strategy into platform solutions.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Cloud-native

Security & testing

CI/CD

AI/LLMs

Cross-functional work

People management

Tools

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Docker

Terraform

ArgoCD

EKS

GitHub

Looker

Python

FastAPI

Job description

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 is available for UK, Indian, German and French SMEs
• Over 2 million members: 900,000 UK and 1,100,000 in India and growing rapidly
• Over $300 million raised in funding
• Over 2,800 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 ROLE:

As an Engineering Manager at Tide,

• You’re an experienced Engineering Manager with strong technical and people-leadership skills, comfortable operating at scale and driving growth through robust, secure user acquisition and onboarding platforms.
• You’ll lead the engineering delivery of our onboarding platform across major global markets—including the UK, India, Germany (DE), and France (FR)—owning the technical direction and execution of systems that power friction-free member sign-ups, verification, and initial account setup.
• You’ll focus on building scalable, compliant, and extensible capabilities that accelerate international expansion while seamlessly adapting to evolving regulatory and market needs.
• You’ll manage and develop a team of engineers, setting clear technical standards and fostering a culture of technical rigor, ownership, and continuous operational improvement. Partnering closely with Product and business stakeholders, you’ll translate global accession strategy into reliable platform solutions, balancing rapid market entry with security, efficiency, and system reliability.
• You’ll be part of the Member Accession Marketing (MAM) engineering group, collaborating closely with KYX, IAM, MEM, Finance, Marketing, and Compliance teams. Together, you’ll deliver a secure, frictionless, and fully localized onboarding experience that establishes trust and sets the foundation for long-term member value.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• Extensive experience (10+ years) building server-side applications and detailed knowledge of Java.
• Sound knowledge of a backend framework (e.g. Spring/Spring Boot)
• Experience with running microservices and implementing and consuming RESTful APIs
• Experience engineering scalable and reliable solutions in a cloud-native environment
• A mindset of delivering secure, well-tested and well-documented software
• Full ownership of your code and technical solutions across their entire lifecycle, from development to production.
• Experience integrating with various third party providers and partners
• Sound knowledge and experience working with relational databases.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools and LLMs to improve engineering productivity, software quality, and delivery velocity.
• Work effectively in an agile environment, using its practices to deliver value consistently and adapt quickly.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Apply continuous integration, delivery, and deployment practices in day-to-day development to deliver software reliably to production.
• A technical hands on leader who is in the details of what the team is working on day to day.
• Experience leading teams
• Experience directly managing people.

OUR TECH STACK:

• Java, Spring Boot and JOOQ to build the RESTful APIs of our microservices (but we welcome people who are used to any strongly typed general purpose programming language!)
• Event-driven architecture with messages over SNS+SQS and Kafka to make them reliable
• Primary datastores are PostgreSQL via RDS or Aurora (we are heavy AWS users)
• Docker, Terraform, ArgoCD and, EKS provided by the Cloud team to run the platform
• DataDog for monitoring, observability and automated SLOs
• GitHub, Semgrep and solid testing to power the CI/CD pipelines - new joiners are encouraged to have something deployed to production in their first week
• Angular on Web, Flutter for our mobile app, but from time to time we use Swift and Kotlin
• Fivetran/BigQuery/Looker for the BI insights and Python/FastAPI/Faust + some ML libs for the automated decisioning and risk management

WHAT YOU’LL GET IN RETURN:

• Competitive Compensation - competitive salary and share options
• Time Off – Generous annual leave on top of bank holidays.
• Parental Leave – Paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave to support your family journey.
• Sabbatical – Extended unpaid and paid leave options after completing milestone years with Tide.
• Health Insurance – Private family insurance with additional OPD coverage and top-up options.
• Life & Accident Cover – Comprehensive accidental and life insurance protection.
• Mental Wellbeing – Access to therapy sessions, courses, meditations, and workshops.
• Volunteering & Development Days – Paid days annually for volunteering or personal growth.
• Learning & Development – Annual budget for books, courses, coaching, and more.
• WOO (Work Outside the Office) – Work from abroad for up to 90 days annually.
• Home Office Setup – Contribution towards setting up your home office
• Laptop Ownership – Keep your old laptop and get a new one when it’s time for a replacement.
• Snacks & Meals – Office perks with snacks, coffee, tea, and lunch (location dependent).

Tidean Ways of Working

At Tide, we’re Member First and Data Driven, but above all, we’re One Team. Our Working Out of Office (WOO) policy allows you to work from anywhere in the world for up to 90 days a year. We are remote first, but when you do want to meet new people, collaborate with your team or simply hang out with your colleagues, our offices are always available and equipped to the highest standard. We offer flexible working hours and trust our employees to do their work well, at times that suit them and their team.

TIDE IS A PLACE FOR EVERYONE

At Tide, we believe that we can only succeed if we let our differences enrich our culture. Our Tideans come from a variety of backgrounds and experience levels. We consider everyone irrespective of their ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity or differently-abled status. We celebrate diversity in our workforce as a cornerstone of our success. Our commitment to a broad spectrum of ideas and backgrounds is what enables us to build products that resonate with our members’ diverse needs and lives.

We are One Team and foster a transparent and inclusive environment, where everyone’s voice is heard.

At Tide, we thrive on diversity, embracing various backgrounds and experiences. We welcome all individuals regardless of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. Our inclusive culture is key to our success, helping us build products that meet our members’ diverse needs. We are One Team, committed to transparency and ensuring everyone’s voice is heard.

tide leverages ai to enhance our hiring experience. You can read more about how we use ai in our recruitment process in our ai policy .