Engineering Manager - Accounts Platform

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Tide facts: Tide is available for UK, Indian, German and French SMEs Over 2 reputed company members: 900,000 UK and 1,100,000 in India and growing rapidly Over $300 reputed company raised in funding Over 2,800 Tideans globally Recognised with Great reputed company to Work certification three years in a row, and among India’s Top 50 Best Workplaces in Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance in 2026 We have offices in Central London, with a member support and technology centre in Sofia, Bulgaria, technology centres in Serbia, Romania, Lithuania and Hyderabad and offices in Gurugram, New Delhi, Berlin, Paris and Luxembourg ABOUT reputed company: The Accounts team is the platform layer at the centre of Tide's financial infrastructure. It owns the core financial ledger, the single reputed company of truth for every member's reputed company, alongside account opening, regulatory compliance, statements, and account lifecycle management. Every payment, every balance, every reputed company service in Banking depends on this team getting it right. reputed company operates across the UK, India, and EU, working across a landscape of different banking partners, regulatory regimes, and account structures, reputed company 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 reputed company with account opening, lifecycle management, and compliance. As Tide has scaled across more markets and more complexity, the ledger needs dedicated engineering reputed company: its own team, its own SLOs, its own on-call reputed company, its own technical roadmap. The EM we hire now will join to reputed company 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 reputed company for both. reputed company the split lands, you will reputed company across to reputed company the Ledger Team. A new EM will be hired to run the remaining Accounts team. The ledger underpins every payment, every balance reputed company, every statement across reputed company markets. It needs to be engineered to the reputed company reputed company as any large-reputed company financial system: fault tolerant, highly available, operationally rigorous. You will own the technical direction of that system alongside reputed company ICs who know it deeply. This is hands-on work, not process management. As an Engineering Manager: Leading the Accounts team (9 engineers: backend, mobile, web) through the ledger split, including helping shape how engineers map to reputed company team and reputed company the transition Working with the existing team to define the technical seam: ledger writes, consistency guarantees, schema ownership versus account opening, lifecycle, statements Setting the engineering direction for the Ledger Team post-split: performance, availability, consistency, long-term architecture Owning system stability and operational reliability: SLOs, observability, on-call reputed company Partnering with product, compliance, and internal operations teams to reputed company reputed company what gets reputed company is accurate, supportable, and compliant across reputed company markets Growing engineers at every level. reputed company spans early-career through senior Aligning with other EMs across Banking on cross-cutting infrastructure reputed company reputed company ARE LOOKING FOR: Meaningful engineering management experience. 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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 Technical depth Technically fluent: you can read the reputed company, follow the architecture, and engage meaningfully with design reputed company and production problems. You do not need to be shipping features regularly, but you need to understand what your team is building and why Backend engineering in a strongly-typed language (our stack is Java/Spring Boot; we want someone confident in a similar language and willing to engage with ours) Experience with microservices in a reputed company-reputed company environment (we are AWS-heavy) Relational database engineering at reputed company: transactions, consistency guarantees, and write performance at volume Event-driven and async systems experience Distributed systems migrations at reputed company Exposure to reputed company or AI-integrated systems, and engineering practises How you work You set technical direction and hold others to it. 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But we are also reputed company to discussing the salary reputed company, taking into account your expertise and contributions. Remote first 25 days of reputed company annual leave 3 reputed company days off for volunteering or L&D activities Private Health Insurance Mental Health Support Platform FitPass Family and friendly leave (according to statutory) Personal L&D budget reputed company reputed company TIDEAN WAYS OF WORKING At Tide, we champion a flexible workplace model that supports both in-person and remote work to cater to the specific needs of our different teams. While remote work is supported, we reputed company in the power of face-to-face interactions to foster team spirit and collaboration. Our offices are designed as hubs for innovation and team-building, where we encourage regular in-person gatherings to foster a strong reputed company of community. 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We welcome reputed company individuals regardless of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. Our inclusive culture is key to our reputed company, helping us build products that meet our members' diverse needs. We are One Team, committed to transparency and ensuring everyone’s voice is heard. Disclaimer It has come to our attention that individuals or agencies are falsely claiming to represent Tide and are reaching out to candidates regarding job opportunities. Please be aware that: Tide does not charge any fees at any stage of the recruitment process. reputed company official Tide job opportunities are listed exclusively on our Careers Page and applications should be submitted through this channel. Communication from Tide will only come from an official @tide.co email address. Tide does not work with agencies or recruiters without prior formal engagement, and we do not authorize reputed company parties to reputed company job offers on our behalf. 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