Tide is hiring a Head of Engineering for its Cards domain, one of its largest revenue lines, covering card issuing and processing in the UK, EU and India. You would lead engineering teams based in Bulgaria, Lithuania and India.

What you would do:

Lead engineering managers and senior engineers across distributed teams
Set the technical strategy and architecture for cards, including tokenisation, payment journeys and card controls
Improve reliability, scalability and cost efficiency, and finish moving off a legacy processor
Embed AI coding agents across the development process
Own technical relationships with card processors and schemes

What they ask for:

Experience leading engineering managers and large, distributed teams
Strong cards, payments or banking experience
Knowledge of microservices, event-driven and cloud-native systems and large-scale transaction processing
Hands-on experience of AI coding agents and strong commercial sense

Tech stack named by the employer: Java and Spring Boot on AWS, PostgreSQL, SNS/SQS, GitHub, Flutter and Angular.

Benefits stated by the employer: competitive salary and share options, generous leave, parental leave, sabbaticals, salary sacrifice schemes, private family health insurance, life cover, wellbeing support, pension, volunteering days and a learning budget.

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Head of Engineering, Cards

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