Director of Engineering, KYX

Tide, the business banking and admin platform for small businesses, is hiring a Director of Engineering to lead the engineering organisation behind KYX, its know-your-customer and know-your-business function. The aim is to let genuine businesses onboard in minutes while stopping bad actors and continuously reviewing activity.

The role covers three areas: onboarding (identity, access, due diligence and vendor orchestration), continuous KYX (periodic and event-driven reviews and adding team members to accounts) and the KYX Scoring and ML team, whose models support decisions in both.

What you would do:

• Own engineering strategy and organisation for KYX, bringing separate engineering lines under one roadmap
• Lead backend, frontend, data science and ML engineers spread across India and several European locations
• Own the full model lifecycle from development and backtesting to production monitoring
• Scale agentic AI in regulated workflows such as risk scoring, screening and verification
• Work with Ops, Policy, second line risk and Product teams across the UK, EU and India
• Raise automated decisioning and due diligence quality while lowering cost per member

What they ask for:

• Experience leading engineering organisations in identity, onboarding, fraud, financial crime or similar regulated areas
• A track record of turning platform investment into measurable results
• Experience taking machine learning into production at scale
• Experience leading distributed teams across several markets
• Experience with AI or agentic systems in regulated settings is a bonus

Tide states a competitive salary and share options, generous annual leave, paid parental leave, private health insurance, life cover, a pension scheme, a learning budget, sabbatical options and up to 90 days a year working from abroad. Tide uses a flexible model with both remote and in-office work.

Apply directly on Tide's website using the button on this page.