Engineering Manager, Core Infrastructure

Serbia · Sofia · 3+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Oct 19, 2026

At a glance

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 globally and rapidly growing

Tide is hiring for a proven Engineering Manager to lead the Core Infrastructure team.
The Core Infrastructure team provides a containerised cloud environment based on EKS that is the foundation of Tide’s Platform Engineering provision to product engineering teams.
You will lead, coach, and set clear goals for a team of engineers while remaining technically hands-on.

Lead: Hire, coach, and set clear goals for a team of engineers.
Plan: Develop a roadmap for architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, and capacity for our infrastructure, databases, and Kubernetes clusters.
Protect: Make sure our platforms meet their targets for availability and security.
Empower: Reduce the time that product engineers need to deploy and run services on the platform.
Control cost: Help product engineering teams make cost-efficient choices for services that run on our platform.
Collaborate: Share team context and build cross-team relationships.
Balance priorities: Weigh technical decisions against team and company goals.
Measure: Track team productivity with metrics such as DORA and SPACE, and drive measurable improvement.

10+ years of experience in distributed computing
3+ years in engineering leadership roles
A degree in Computer Science or a related field
Detailed knowledge of AWS, GCP, or both, in a regulated environment that requires security guardrails
Experience running Kubernetes in production with GitOps (ArgoCD preferred)
An understanding of how to use AI tools such as Claude, and how to help your engineers and customers use them efficiently
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experience managing stakeholders across teams and functions

Platform engineering experience that abstracts Kubernetes complexity into a stable internal product
Experience creating and maintaining Kubernetes operators

Remote first
We champion a flexible workplace model that supports both in-person and remote work

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