Engineering Manager - Company Secretariat

ABOUT TIDE:
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.

Tide facts:

• Tide is available for UK Indian German and French SMEs
• Over 2 million members: 900 000 UK and 1 100 000 in India and growing rapidly
• Over $300 million raised in funding
• Over 2 800 Tideans globally
• Recognised with Great Place to Work certification three years in a row and among India’s Top 50 Best Workplaces in Banking Financial Services and Insurance in 2026
• We have offices in Central London with a member support and technology centre in Sofia Bulgaria technology centres in Serbia Romania Lithuania and Hyderabad and offices in
• Gurugram New Delhi Berlin Paris and Luxembourg

ABOUT THE TEAM:
The Company Secretariat (CoSec) team oversees business compliance across specific jurisdictions through integration with local regulatory authorities and third-party services.

The team facilitates the timely submission of official filings and corporate modifications while embedding these processes seamlessly into the member journey.

By abstracting market-specific legal and operational complexities within the Tide application the team ensures that members can rely on robust automated compliance management.

Building upon the foundational architecture established in the UK current initiatives focus on transforming the service into a market-agnostic platform capable of dynamically adapting to diverse data sources.

This entails orchestrating complex cross-domain data integrations ensuring accurate data transformation and propagating post-filing updates and metadata to downstream systems once external third-party processing is complete.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

• Lead and own the end-to-end delivery of company secretariat functions ensuring full compliance with local regulatory requirements and market-specific nuances.
• Architect build and maintain scalable distributed systems for seamless business management and compliance platforms with sustainable long-term strategy.
• Collaborate closely with product compliance and internal operations to define system architecture execute key deliveries and ensure all services are highly accurate supportable and fully compliant.
• Drive cross-functional engagement across domains to gain a complete understanding of their systems and optimise existing flows.
• Mentor and develop team members through active hands-on technical delivery and leadership.
• Guarantee high system stability operational reliability and performance by defining SLOs improving observability tooling and supporting effective on-call practices.
• Align with other engineering leaders to drive strategic cross-cutting infrastructure decisions and cross-team initiatives.
• Shape the team’s roadmap and vision for upcoming quarters presenting strategic plans clearly to senior leadership.
• Manage team members support their professional development distribute workload and ensure alignment on deliverable goals.
• Champion modern engineering practices by transitioning the team toward full-stack development and agentic workflows.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
Tide is seeking a hands-on technical Engineering Manager to lead the Company Secretariat team.

In this role you will support and scale our existing UK platform while extending the service across new markets building a market-agnostic architecture that seamlessly integrates flexible data sources and ensures dependable automated compliance filings on behalf of our members.
Key qualifications and skills required for this role:

• Proven track record in building and operating distributed systems
• Strong technical background (preferrably with the JVM ecosystem)
• Hands-on expertise with third-party service integrations
• Ability to lead mentor and empower engineering teams
• Strong self-drive and capability to operate autonomously
• Proactive problem solver who clears blockers for themselves and teammates
• Agile adaptable mindset suited for a high-velocity environment
• Outstanding communication and stakeholder management capabilities
• Demonstrated experience with AI-assisted and agentic workflows

OUR TECH STACK:
Our services run on AWS using Java and Spring Boot microservices backed by AWS Aurora (PostgreSQL) as our primary database.

Asynchronous and event-driven messaging is handled via AWS SNS / SQS.

We use Coralogix for observability Gradle for builds and GitHub for CI/CD with automated testing security scanning and Kubernetes deployments via ArgoCD.

Our mobile applications are built with Flutter while our web platform is transitioning from Angular to Flutter (web). 

New joiners typically have something in production within their first two weeks.

Claude Code is enabled for all engineers for agentic and AI-assisted development.

WHAT YOU’LL GET IN RETURN:

• The gross monthly salary for this position ranges from 7500€ to 11000€ depending on your skills and experience
• Private Health Insurance
• 3rd Pillar Pension Fund Contribution
• 25 days Paid Annual Leave
• 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€ per year
• Mental wellbeing platform Plumm
• WFH Equipment Allowance
• Sabbatical Leave
• Share options
• Team Events

TIDEAN WAYS OF WORKING:
At Tide we champion a flexible workplace model that supports both in-person and remote work to cater to the specific needs of our different teams. 
While remote work is supported we believe in the power of face-to-face interactions to foster team spirit and collaboration.

Our offices are designed as hubs for innovation and team-building where we encourage regular in-person gatherings to foster a strong sense of community. 

TIDE IS A PLACE FOR EVERYONE:
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.

We are One Team and foster a transparent and inclusive environment where everyone’s voice is heard.