Engineering Manager, Core Infrastructure

📋 Job Overview

At Tide, we help SMEs save time and money in the running of their businesses by not only offering business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly usable and connected administrative solutions, from invoicing to accounting.

Tide is transforming the small business banking market and now supports over 2 million members globally across the UK, India, Germany and France.

Using advanced technology, all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind. With quick onboarding, low fees and innovative features, we thrive on making data driven decisions to serve our mission: to help SMEs save time and money so they can get back to doing what they love.

🏢 About Tide

The Core Infrastructure team provides a containerised cloud environment based on EKS that is the foundation of Tide’s Platform Engineering provision to product engineering teams.

The team mission is to provide product engineers a platform so they can build great products for our members without directly provisioning cloud infrastructure.

🎯 The Role

Tide is hiring for a proven Engineering Manager to lead the team.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Lead: Hire, coach, and set clear goals for a team of engineers.
• Plan: Develop a roadmap for architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, and capacity for our infrastructure, databases, and Kubernetes clusters.
• Protect: Make sure our platforms meet their targets for availability and security.
• Empower: Reduce the time that product engineers need to deploy and run services on the platform.
• Control cost: Help product engineering teams make cost-efficient choices for services that run on our platform.
• Collaborate: Share team context and build cross-team relationships.
• Balance priorities: Weigh technical decisions against team and company goals.
• Measure: Track team productivity with metrics such as DORA and SPACE, and drive measurable improvement.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in distributed computing
• 3+ years in engineering leadership roles
• A degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Detailed knowledge of AWS, GCP, or both, in a regulated environment that requires security guardrails
• Experience running Kubernetes in production with GitOps (ArgoCD preferred)
• An understanding of how to use AI tools such as Claude, and how to help your engineers and customers use them efficiently
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience managing stakeholders across teams and functions

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Platform engineering experience that abstracts Kubernetes complexity into a stable internal product
• Experience creating and maintaining Kubernetes operators

🎁 Benefits

The gross annual salary for this position ranges from €72,000 to €101,250 but we are also open to discussing the salary further, taking into account your expertise and contributions.

25 days paid annual leave

3 paid days off for volunteering or L&D activities

Extended maternity and paternity leave covered by the company

Personal L&D budget in the amount of 500 EUR per year

Additional health & dental insurance

Mental wellbeing platform

Fully covered Multisports card

Food vouchers

Snacks, light food, drinks in the office

WFH equipment allowance

Flexible working from home

Sabbatical Leave

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🛂 Visa & Eligibility

At Tide, we believe that we can only succeed if we let our differences enrich our culture. Our Tideans come from a variety of backgrounds and experience levels. We consider everyone irrespective of their ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity or differently-abled status. We celebrate diversity in our workforce as a cornerstone of our success. Our commitment to a broad spectrum of ideas and backgrounds is what enables us to build products that resonate with our members’ diverse needs and lives.