Engineering Manager, Core Infrastructure

Description

A BOUT 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 facts:

Tide is available for UK, Indian, German and French SMEs

Over 2 million members globally and rapidly growing

Over $300 million raised in funding

3,000 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

The Core Infrastructure team provides a containerised cloud environment based on EKS that is the foundation of Tide’s Platform Engineering provision to product engineering teams.

The team mission is to provide product engineers a platform so they can build great products for our members without directly provisioning cloud infrastructure.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Tide is hiring for a proven Engineering Manager to lead the team.

As the successful candidate you will:

Lead: Hire, coach, and set clear goals for a team of engineers.

Plan: Develop a roadmap for architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, and capacity for our infrastructure, databases, and Kubernetes clusters.

Protect: Make sure our platforms meet their targets for availability and security.

Empower: Reduce the time that product engineers need to deploy and run services on the platform.

Control cost: Help product engineering teams make cost-efficient choices for services that run on our platform.

Collaborate: Share team context and build cross-team relationships.

Balance priorities: Weigh technical decisions against team and company goals.

Measure: Track team productivity with metrics such as DORA and SPACE, and drive measurable improvement.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

You are an engineering leader who stays technically hands-on. You know that the biggest challenges need effective delegation and team empowerment.

Responsibilities

• Platform engineering experience that abstracts Kubernetes complexity into a stable internal product
• Experience creating and maintaining Kubernetes operators
• OUR TECH STACK:
• Cloud: 100% containerised on AWS EKS
• Infrastructure as code: Terraform and Terragrunt manage all platform infrastructure
• Deployments: ArgoCD with a GitOps approach
• Custom infrastructure: Helm and Crossplane manage the databases, S3 buckets, and other resources that each container needs
• Source control and CI/CD: GitHub and GitHub Actions
• Observability: Coralogix
• Product backend: Java, Python, and Go
• Client apps: Angular and Flutter
• WHAT YOU’LL GET IN RETURN:
• Our location-specific employee benefits are designed to cater to the unique needs of Tideans:
• The gross annual salary for this position ranges from €72,000 to € 101,250 but we are also open to discussing the salary further, taking into account your expertise and contributions.
• 25 days paid annual leave
• 3 paid days off for volunteering or L&D activities
• Extended maternity and paternity leave covered by the company
• Personal L&D budget in the amount of 500 EUR per year
• Additional health & dental insurance
• Mental wellbeing platform
• Fully covered Multisports card
• Food vouchers
• Snacks, light food, drinks in the office
• WFH equipment allowance
• Flexible working from home
• Sabbatical Leave
• Share options
• 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.
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• 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.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in distributed computing
• 3+ years in engineering leadership roles
• A degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Detailed knowledge of AWS, GCP, or both, in a regulated environment that requires security guardrails
• Experience running Kubernetes in production with GitOps (ArgoCD preferred)
• An understanding of how to use AI tools such as Claude, and how to help your engineers and customers use them efficiently
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience managing stakeholders across teams and functions