Engineering Manager, Core Infrastructure

About the role

Tide, a small business banking provider serving SMEs in the UK, Germany and France, is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead its Core Infrastructure team. The team runs a containerised cloud environment based on EKS that underpins Tide's platform engineering, letting product engineers build products without the team provisioning cloud infrastructure itself.

Key responsibilities

• Hire, coach and set clear goals for a team of engineers.
• Plan the roadmap for architecture, upgrades, autoscaling and capacity for infrastructure, databases and Kubernetes clusters.
• Protect platforms by meeting targets for availability and security.
• Empower product engineers by reducing the time needed to deploy and run services on the platform.
• Help engineering teams make cost-efficient service choices.
• Collaborate across teams, share context and balance technical decisions with team and company goals.
• Track team productivity with metrics such as DORA and SPACE and drive measurable improvement.

Required profile

• 10+ years of experience in distributed computing.
• 3+ years in engineering leadership roles.
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Hands-on technical leader who delegates effectively.
• Experience managing stakeholders across teams and functions.

Required skills

• Detailed knowledge of AWS, GCP or both in a regulated environment requiring security guardrails.
• Production Kubernetes with GitOps (ArgoCD preferred).
• Understanding of AI tools such as Claude and how to help engineers and customers use them.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

What stands out: platform engineering experience that abstracts Kubernetes complexity into a stable internal product, and experience creating and maintaining Kubernetes operators.

What we offer

• Gross annual salary of EUR 75,200 to EUR 105,750, open to discussion.
• Remote-first work, with offices in London, Sofia, Berlin, Paris, Luxembourg and others.
• 25 days of paid annual leave and 3 paid days off for volunteering or learning.
• Private health insurance, mental health support and FitPass.
• Family-friendly leave, personal L&D budget and share options.