Engineering Manager

Architus is collaborating with Tide, a growing leader in banking technology, on strategic projects, and we are looking for a Engineering Manager to join their innovative team.

About Tide

Tide recently established a branch in Lithuania, currently home to 45+ engineers, with plans for significant expansion. Tide is building an innovative finance platform designed to help small businesses save both time and money. In addition to providing business accounts and banking services, Tide offers a comprehensive suite of connected administrative solutions, ranging from invoicing to accounting.

Launched in 2017, Tide is now trusted by over 1,8 million small businesses worldwide and is available to SMEs in the UK, India, France and Germany.

As Tide continues to grow rapidly and expand into new markets, the company is always seeking passionate and driven teammates. Join Tide in its mission to empower small businesses and help them save time and money.

The Opportunity

As an Engineering Manager at Tide, you will be responsible for building and running the products your team owns, covering everything our members need to run their business, from banking and payments through to administration and operational tooling.

This role offers an exceptional opportunity to make a real difference by taking ownership of engineering practices in a rapidly expanding company! We trust and empower our Engineering Managers to make real architectural decisions that affect their domain and shape the future of Tide’s Platform.

We operate in domain-aligned, full-stack teams that own products end to end. Engineers self-organise, collaborate on technical challenges, and define shared standards through Communities of Practice.

• Leading & Directly managing a cross functional team
• Partnering with a Product Manager to form the Product Engineering Duo
• Deeply caring about what’s being built as much as the how
• Being responsible of the delivery of the team - quality, stability, timelines, dependencies
• Being responsible of the tech excellence and architecture within the scope of the team
• Driving the continuous improvement of the team performance as measured by DORA
• Securing the continuous growth and wellbeing of the engineers on their team
• Being hands-on, carefully dividing your time between design, coding and coaching other team members. You will be the person people turn to seeking advice and solutions to difficult problems.

Requirements

• Extensive experience building server-side applications and detailed knowledge of Java
• Sound knowledge of a backend framework (e.g. Spring/Spring Boot)
• Experience with running microservices and implementing and consuming RESTful APIs
• Experience engineering scalable and reliable solutions in a cloud-native environment
• A mindset of delivering secure, well-tested and well-documented software
• Full ownership of your code and technical solutions across their entire lifecycle, from development to production.
• Experience integrating with various third party providers and partners
• Sound knowledge and experience working with relational databases
• Work effectively in an agile environment, using its practices to deliver value consistently and adapt quickly
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Apply continuous integration, delivery, and deployment practices in day-to-day development to deliver software reliably to production
• A technical hands on leader who is in the details of what the team is working on day to day
• Experience leading teams
• Experience directly managing people

Technical Stack

• Java, Spring Boot and JOOQ to build the RESTful APIs of our microservices (but we welcome people who are used to any strongly typed general purpose programming language!)
• Event-driven architecture with messages over SNS+SQS and Kafka to make them reliable
• Primary datastores are PostgreSQL via RDS or Aurora (we are heavy AWS users)
• Docker, Terraform, ArgoCD and, EKS provided by the Cloud team to run the platform
• DataDog for monitoring, observability and automated SLOs
• GitHub, Semgrep and solid testing to power the CI/CD pipelines - new joiners are encouraged to have something deployed to production in their first week
• Angular on Web, Flutter for our mobile app, but from time to time we use Swift and Kotlin
• Fivetran/BigQuery/Looker for the BI insights and Python/FastAPI/Faust + some ML libs for the automated decisioning and risk management

What You’ll Get in Return

Make work, work for you! We are embracing new ways of working and support flexible working arrangements. With our Working Out of Office (WOO) policy our colleagues can work remotely from home or anywhere in their home country. Additionally, you can work from a different country for up to 90 days a year. Plus, you’ll get:

• The gross monthly salary for this position ranges from €7.400 to €11.560 gross, depending on your skills, and experience. But we are also open to discussing the salary further, taking into account your expertise and contributions.
• Flexible workplacemodel thatsupports both in-person and remote work.
• Additional health insurance.
• 5 extra vacation days.
• 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 EUR per year.
• Mental wellbeing platform Plumm.
• WFH equipment allowance.
• Sabbatical Leave.
• Share options.
• Team Events.