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. The successful candidate will report directly to the Chief Data and Technology Officer. Ongoing Monitoring detects fraud, financial crime, and regulatory risk across every transaction Tide processes.
The VP Engineering will be accountable for the engineering strategy, organisation, and execution across all Ongoing Monitoring value streams. This includes 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.
Key responsibilities:
- 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
- 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
- Experience taking machine learning from development into production at scale
- Experience operating in a regulated environment
- 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
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
- Sabbatical – Extended unpaid and paid leave options
- Access to salary sacrifice benefits
- 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
- 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