Description
As an Engineering Manager at Tide, you're an experienced Full Stack Engineering Leader with strong people-management skills, comfortable operating at scale and driving impact through well-designed platforms.
In this critical role, you will lead a cross-functional engineering team and partner closely with Product Management to own and lead global In-Person Acquiring products.
In-Person payments currently account for a significant majority (65%+) of Acquiring revenue in key markets, making this a highly visible, high-impact domain. You will own the technical direction and end-to-end execution of systems that power in-house ePOS solutions, Tap to Pay technologies, cross-platform mobile apps, and complex pricing engines.
Responsibilities
- Full Stack Leadership: Proven track record directly managing, coaching, and developing cross-functional teams of Backend, Mobile, and Web engineers.
- Technical Depth & T-Shaped Leadership: A platform- and tech stack-agnostic engineering leader who is an expert in at least one core domain/platform.
- Domain Expertise: Experience in FinTech, specifically within Acquiring, In-Person Payments, ePOS systems, or payment gateway integrations is highly desirable.
- Architecture & Scale: Experience engineering scalable, reliable solutions in a cloud-native environment.
- Partner Integrations: Proven experience designing systems that seamlessly integrate with complex third-party vendors, hardware providers, and external payment networks.
- End-to-End Ownership: Full ownership of technical solutions across their entire lifecycle.
- Strategic Execution: A technical, hands-on leader who can guide architecture decisions and communicate technical concepts seamlessly to stakeholders.
Our Tech Stack
- Java, Spring Boot, and JOOQ
- Event-driven architecture with messages over SNS+SQS and Kafka
- Primary datastores are PostgreSQL via RDS or Aurora
- Docker, Terraform, ArgoCD, and EKS
- DataDog for monitoring, observability, and automated SLOs
- GitHub, Semgrep, and solid testing
- Angular on Web, Flutter for mobile app
- Fivetran/BigQuery/Looker for BI insights and Python/FastAPI/Faust + some ML libs for automated decisioning and risk management
Benefits
- 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
- Sabbatical – Extended unpaid and paid leave options
- Health Insurance – Private family insurance
- Life & Accident Cover – Comprehensive accidental and life insurance protection
- Mental Wellbeing – Access to therapy sessions
- Volunteering & Development Days – Paid days annually for volunteering or personal growth
- Learning & Development – Annual budget for books, courses, coaching
- 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
- Snacks & Meals – Office perks with snacks, coffee, tea, and lunch