VP Engineering – Ongoing Monitoring

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Establish the engineering strategy for Tide's platforms focused on fraud, financial crime, and ongoing monitoring.

• Oversee engineering efforts across backend, frontend, data science, machine learning engineering, and analytics engineering, primarily based in Hyderabad, with product leadership shared between Hyderabad and London.

• Manage a team of managers and senior engineers while building a strong leadership pipeline.

• Collaborate with stakeholders from risk, operations, business, design, product, and engineering.

• Take ownership of the Decision Engine and Decision Intelligence Platform as shared resources, integrating domestic and international payment flows.

• Manage the lifecycle of models, from development through backtesting, shadow deployment, staged rollout, and monitoring production performance.

• Scale agentic AI within regulated workflows and transition Ongoing Monitoring agents to Tide's shared agentic infrastructure.

• Uphold Tide's agentic governance framework.

• Achieve lower fraud losses, increased automated alert throughput, and reduced ongoing monitoring costs per member.

• Construct the operating model that connects first line operations, second line risk and compliance, payments and acquiring engineering, KYX, AI Platforms, and data science leadership under a unified roadmap.

• Utilize principles to build once, deploy globally, and isolate market-specific logic.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in leading engineering organizations in fraud, financial crime, risk, or another real-time decision-making domain.

• Strong history of translating platform investments into tangible outcomes in fraud detection and mitigation, reduction of unit economics, and workflow automation.

• Experience in transitioning machine learning from development to production at scale.

• Proven track record of owning model performance once deployed and quickly iterating model development.

• Experience in operating within a regulated environment.

• Familiarity with second line risk and compliance functions, as well as engagement with regulators.

• Strong judgment in areas of organization design, delivery, platform strategy, data architecture, and technical quality.

• Ability to lead distributed teams across multiple markets and align various functions behind a single roadmap, operating model, and set of priorities.

• Experience in deploying AI or agentic systems within regulated workflows, with a clear focus on governance, evaluation, and human oversight is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary along with share options.

• Generous annual leave in addition to bank holidays.

• Maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.

• Extended unpaid and paid leave options available after reaching milestone years with Tide.

• Public health insurance plan.

• Public pension scheme on eligible earnings.

• Employer-funded DeutschlandTicket providing free, unlimited travel throughout Germany on all local public transport (not valid on ICE, IC/EC).

• Employer-funded Urban Sports Club M membership.

• Access to therapy sessions, courses, meditations, and workshops.

• Paid annual days for volunteering or personal development.

• Annual budget allocated for books, courses, coaching, and more.

• Opportunity to work from abroad for up to 90 days each year.

• Contribution towards establishing a home office.

• Keep your old laptop and receive a new one when it’s time for a replacement.