Engineering Manager - Accounts Platform

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Accounts team is the platform layer at the centre of Tide's financial infrastructure. It owns the core financial ledger, the single source of truth for every member's money, alongside account opening, regulatory compliance, statements, and account lifecycle management. Every payment, every balance, every downstream service in Banking depends on this team getting it right. The team operates across the UK, India, and EU, working across a landscape of different banking partners, regulatory regimes, and account structures, all underpinned by one ledger that needs to be fast, accurate, and always available.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Accounts team is about to split. The ledger is being carved out into its own dedicated team (the Ledger Team), with a mandate to treat it as the high-volume, high-criticality system it is: low latency, high availability, rigorous consistency guarantees. Today the ledger shares a team with account opening, lifecycle management, and compliance. As Tide has scaled across more markets and more complexity, the ledger needs dedicated engineering focus: its own team, its own SLOs, its own on-call practice, its own technical roadmap.

The EM we hire now will join to lead the full Accounts team through that transition. Working alongside the existing team, which includes strong staff-level IC experience, you will help design the seam between the two teams, work out where engineers land, and build the organisational and technical foundation for both. When the split lands, you will move across to lead the Ledger Team. A new EM will be hired to run the remaining Accounts team.

The ledger underpins every payment, every balance check, every statement across all markets. It needs to be engineered to the same standard as any large-scale financial system: fault tolerant, highly available, operationally rigorous. You will own the technical direction of that system alongside experienced ICs who know it deeply. This is hands-on work, not process management.

Experience and background

• Meaningful engineering management experience. You have led teams through real delivery, not just been a strong tech lead. What matters is the quality of that experience, not the number of years
• A solid backend engineering foundation before moving into management, enough to earn credibility with the team and get into the detail when it matters
• Experience leading distributed, remote-first teams across time zones
• Proven experience leading technical teams, aligning with senior leadership on deliveries, and partnering with product
• Fintech or banking domain experience: you know the regulatory surface and what it means to run systems where correctness is not optional. High-volume transaction processing experience is a plus, whether in payments, FX, or similar domains
• Strong grasp of high-volume distributed systems: consistency models, fault tolerance, reliability patterns, SLOs and SLAs, observability tooling

WHAT YOU’LL GET IN RETURN

• The gross monthly salary for this position ranges from 7500€ to 11000€, depending on your skills and experience
• Private Health Insurance
• 3rd Pillar Pension Fund Contribution
• 25 days Paid Annual Leave
• 3 Paid Days off for Volunteering or L&D Activities
• Parental Leave days 
• Family-Friendly Leave 
• Personal L&D Budget in the amount of 500€ per year
• Mental wellbeing platform Plumm
• WFH Equipment Allowance
• Sabbatical Leave
• Share options
• Team Events