Head of Engineering, Experience Foundations | London, UK

Careers at Tide; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000

Job description

Head of Engineering, Experience Foundations

ABOUT TIDE
At Tide, we are building a finance platform designed to save small businesses time and money. We provide our members with business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of connected administrative solutions from invoicing to accounting.

Launched in 2017, Tide is now used by over 1 million small businesses across the world and is available to UK, Indian and German SMEs. Headquartered in central London, with offices in Sofia, Hyderabad, Delhi, Berlin and Belgrade, Tide employs over 2000 employees.

Tide is rapidly growing, expanding into new markets and always looking for passionate and driven people. Join us in our mission to empower small businesses and help them save time and money.

ABOUT THE TEAM
As Head of Engineering - Experience Foundations, you'll lead a growing team of Engineers and Engineering Managers, shaping strategy and roadmaps with the SVP & Head of Product. You'll drive innovations in personalised financial experiences, reimagine solutions, and enhance mobile/web platforms for users in the UK, India, and Germany. Partnering with Product and Design, you'll leverage data to rapidly prototype and deliver impactful solutions, while championing engineering innovation and aligning the team with a compelling vision for the future of personalised member experiences.

ABOUT THE ROLE
As Head of Engineering, you will be a technical leader, playing a pivotal role in shaping the future of how Tide members experience our products. You're a strategic leader who can set an engineering vision that aligns to product vision and drive incremental delivery. Managing the Engineering Managers (EMs) within the domain, this role is focused on technical leadership, architecture, and engineering strategy.

As Head of Engineering you will be:

• Defining and driving the direction for Tide's connectivity, personalization, and recommendation of products.
• Leading the development of Tide's design system, experience simulators, and information architecture.
• Work across multiple business areas to effectively get things done through constructive collaboration and data driven decisions.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Business) to enhance member experience.
• This is a technically hands-on role. Getting directly involved in your architecture, providing hands-on technical guidance, ensuring best practices in software engineering, security, and system design.
• Managing and mentoring engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

This role offers the opportunity to influence the entire Tide product portfolio, drive innovation, and shape Tide's strategy as we scale globally.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are seeking a highly technical and strategic engineering leader with deep expertise in payments systems, fintech, and distributed architectures.

• 10+ years of engineering experience of delivering high-quality, customer-focused digital products
• Expertise in front-end architecture and scalability
• Experience in front-end development, preferably with Flutter, plus knowledge of modern frameworks, performance optimization, state management, and build pipelines.
• Ability to translate strategic goals into a clear technical roadmap and effectively communicate the "why" behind technical decisions.

OUR TECH STACK
We use the latest iterations of Flutter and Dart with a modular architecture to build scalable applications. Our stack includes state management, dependency injection, and navigation tools to streamline development. We emphasize code generation, backend communication efficiency, and BDD testing. Monitoring, analytics, and CI/CD are powered by Firebase, DataDog, LaunchDarkly, and GitHub Actions for seamless deployment and reliability.

We use:

• Frontend: Flutter (Mobile), Angular (Web)
• Backend: Java (17+), Spring Boot
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Messaging: Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes (EKS), AWS

WHAT YOU'LL GET IN RETURN
Our location-specific employee benefits are designed to cater to the unique needs of Tideans:

• Flexible working options
• Share options
• Group Life Insurance
• Vitality Health Insurance, with a proactive focus on mental and physical wellbeing
• 25 days holiday with the ability to buy extra days
• 3 days for L&D or volunteering time off per year
• We invest in your development with a £1,000 professional L&D budget per year
• Access to 'salary sacrifice' benefits such as Cycle to Work scheme and pension contribution
• Spacious brand-new office near Old Street with an all-day snacks bar
• Enhanced family-friendly leave
• Sabbatical leave

TIDEAN WAYS OF WORKING
At Tide, we champion a flexible workplace model that supports both in-person and remote work to cater to the specific needs of our different teams.

While remote work is supported, we believe in the power of face-to-face interactions to foster team spirit and collaboration. Our offices are designed as hubs for innovation and team-building, where we encourage regular in-person gatherings to foster a strong sense of community.

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.

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