# Head of Engineering, Cards

**Company**: Tide
**Location**: United Kingdom
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Job Overview

As Head of Engineering, Cards, you will lead the engineering organisation across the UK, EU and India, shaping the next phase of the Cards platform.

## Responsibilities

- Lead and develop engineering managers and senior engineers across distributed teams.

- Define the technical strategy and architecture for the Cards domain.

- Drive reliability, scalability and cost efficiency across card issuing and processing.

- Embed AI-assisted and agentic development practices across engineering teams.

- Partner with Product, Design and Commercial teams to prioritise and deliver the roadmap.

- Own technical relationships with card processors and schemes, including integrations and certifications.

- Strengthen engineering capabilities, particularly at Staff and senior IC levels.

- Collaborate with other engineering leaders across Payments on shared infrastructure.

## Requirements

- Experience leading engineering managers and large engineering teams.

- Strong experience in cards, payments or banking, with a deep understanding of card issuing, processing and card scheme operations.

- Experience building and operating distributed engineering teams across multiple locations.

- Proven ability to improve engineering delivery, productivity and quality.

- Experience partnering with Product, Commercial and Finance leaders on business outcomes and unit economics.

- Experience managing third-party technology providers and strategic partnerships.

## Technical Expertise

- Strong understanding of microservices, event-driven architecture and cloud-native systems.

- Experience with relational databases, distributed systems and large-scale transaction processing.

- Ability to challenge architectural decisions and engage in technical and production-level discussions.

- Hands-on experience with AI coding agents and their application across the software development lifecycle.

## What We Offer

- 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.

- Access to salary sacrifice benefits – like Nursery and Cycle to Work discounts.

- Health Insurance – Comprehensive Private family insurance plan.

- Life & Accident Cover – Comprehensive accidental and life insurance protection.

- Mental Wellbeing – Access to therapy sessions, courses, meditations, and workshops.

- Retirement Planning – Build your retirement fund faster with Tide’s pension scheme on eligible earnings.

- 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 – Daily breakfast spread with all-day coffee, tea, and juices.

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## Skills

### Required
- cards
- payments
- banking
- microservices
- event-driven architecture
- cloud-native systems
- relational databases
- distributed systems
- large-scale transaction processing
- AI coding agents

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