# VP Engineering, Ongoing Monitoring

**Company**: Tide
**Location**: Berlin, Germany
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## About Tide

Tide is transforming the small business banking market, supporting over 2 million members globally with business accounts and related banking services, as well as a comprehensive set of administrative solutions.

## About the Role

Tide is hiring a VP of Engineering to lead the engineering organisation behind Ongoing Monitoring. You will report directly to the Chief Data and Technology Officer. Ongoing Monitoring protects members by detecting fraud, financial crime, and regulatory risk across every transaction Tide processes.

You will be accountable for the engineering strategy, organisation, and execution across all Ongoing Monitoring value streams: real-time transaction monitoring for bank payments fraud, acquiring fraud, Anti Money Laundering, Counter Terrorist Financing, sanctions and prohibited activities monitoring, and the tooling our financial investigators depend on.

As VP Engineering, Ongoing Monitoring you will:

- Set the engineering strategy for Tide's fraud, financial crime, and ongoing monitoring platforms

- Lead engineering across backend, frontend, data science, ML engineering, and analytics engineering

- Lead managers and senior engineers, and build the leadership bench underneath you

- Work with multiple stakeholders across risk, operations, business, design, product, and engineering

- Own the Decision Engine and Decision Intelligence Platform as shared capabilities

- Own the model lifecycle end to end, from development through backtesting, shadow deployment, and staged rollout to production performance monitoring

- Scale agentic AI in regulated workflows

- Deliver measurable risk and efficiency outcomes: lower fraud losses, higher automated alert throughput, and a falling ongoing monitoring cost per member

- Build the operating model that connects first line operations, second line risk and compliance, payments and acquiring engineering, KYX, AI Platforms, and data science leadership behind one roadmap

## What We Are Looking For

- Experience leading engineering organisations in fraud, financial crime, risk, or another real-time decisioning domain

- Strong track record of turning platform investment into measurable outcomes across fraud detection and mitigation, unit economics reduction, and workflows automation

- Experience taking machine learning from development into production at scale, and owning model performance once live and fast iteration of model development

- Experience operating in a regulated environment, working with second line risk and compliance functions and with regulators

- Strong judgement across organisation design, delivery, platform strategy, data architecture, and technical quality

- Ability to lead distributed teams across multiple markets and align several functions behind one roadmap, operating model, and set of priorities

- Experience deploying AI or agentic systems inside regulated workflows, with a clear view on governance, evaluation, and human oversight would be a bonus

## 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 – 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 – Public health insurance plan

- Retirement Planning – Public pension scheme on eligible earnings

- DeutschlandTicket via Spendit - Employer funded free, unlimited travel throughout Germany on all local public transport

- Urban Sports Club Membership - Employer funded M membership

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- fraud detection
- financial crime
- real-time decisioning
- machine learning
- regulated environment
- platform strategy
- data architecture

### Nice to have
- agentic AI
- governance
- evaluation
- human oversight

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