# Senior Engineering Manager, Developer Experience **Company**: Tide **Location**: Delhi NCR **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tide/jobs/7817071003?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_90935786-e30 ## Description ## About the Role: As Senior Engineering Manager, Developer Experience / Head of Developer Experience, you will report directly to the Director of Platform Engineering and be responsible for how every engineer at Tide builds, tests and ships software. You will: - Own the Developer Experience strategy for Tide, setting the vision and roadmap for developer tooling, CI/CD and the internal platform. - Lead the design, build and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling, reducing friction and lead time across the software delivery lifecycle. - Define, track and report on DevEx and engineering productivity metrics (e.g. DORA, SPACE), using data to identify bottlenecks and prioritise investment. - Own and evolve Tide’s service catalogue (Backstage), establishing it as the single source of truth for the ICT Asset Register and driving adoption across engineering. - Manage the Developer Productivity function, responsible for building and maintaining Java/Spring and Python ‘paved road’ templates that give product teams a fast, secure and consistent way to start new services. - Own the internally developed libraries for authentication and other common functionality, ensuring they are well documented, kept up to date, and widely adopted across product teams. - Build, lead and mentor a team of platform, developer experience and developer productivity engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, craftsmanship and continuous improvement. - Prepare Tide’s engineering platform for agentic development, ensuring our tooling, paved roads and guardrails allow AI coding agents (e.g. Claude Code) to contribute safely and effectively alongside human engineers. - Define the platform, tooling and operating model for running AI-developed applications in production, covering observability, security, testing and governance for agent-authored code. - Partner closely with engineering leaders, security and compliance stakeholders across Tide’s product and platform teams to identify friction points and shape the platform roadmap. ## What We Are Looking For: Tide is seeking an experienced Head of Developer Experience to lead our efforts in making our engineers as productive and effective as possible. The ideal candidate will have: - A proven track record leading Developer Experience, Platform Engineering or DevOps/SRE teams at scale. - Hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling in a modern cloud environment. - Experience with Backstage, or a comparable internal developer portal / service catalogue tool, including rollout and adoption. - Experience running a developer productivity or paved-road function, including building and maintaining project templates (e.g. Java/Spring, Python) and shared libraries (e.g. authentication, common functionality) used by product teams. - Working knowledge of engineering productivity frameworks such as DORA metrics or SPACE, and experience using them to drive improvement. - Familiarity with agentic and AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude Code, GitHub Copilot), and a point of view on the guardrails, governance and infrastructure needed to run AI-developed applications safely in production. - Strong people leadership skills, with a track record of building, growing and developing high-performing engineering teams. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to influence engineering leaders across multiple teams and locations. - Experience in financial services or another regulated, technology-driven scale-up environment is a plus. ## 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). ## Skills ### Required - CI/CD pipelines - developer tooling - Backstage - DORA metrics - SPACE - Java/Spring - Python - Kubernetes - Terraform - Helm - Crossplane - GitHub - AWS - GCP - Claude Code ### Nice to have - agentic development - AI-assisted development tools - financial services - regulated environments --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tide/jobs/7817071003?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)