Director of Engineering

CarTrawler

Tech that takes you places We’re CarTrawler, the global travel tech company behind seamless connections between people, places and possibilities. From powering car rental to creating smarter ways to move, we make travel smoother for millions worldwide. Our culture is built on curiosity, collaboration and craic where every idea counts and every journey matters. Ready to make an impact? Let’s go places together. As we evolve from a single-category leader into a multi-product travel platform, we are building the next generation of B2B connectivity, blending modular architecture, unified product experiences and AI-powered intelligence. This is a pivotal leadership role at the centre of that transformation. We are seeking a strategic and execution-focused Director of Engineering to lead engineering delivery across our multi-product B2B platform. This role is accountable for engineering outcomes across Product Engineering, Platform Engineering and Engineering Excellence. You will shape engineering strategy, steward architecture direction, embed modern AI-enabled practices and ensure predictable, high-quality delivery at scale. You will play a key role in transitioning CarTrawler into a multi-travel platform business, balancing platform evolution with operational excellence. What you will do as a Director of Engineering

Tide

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: Ongoing Monitoring is where Tide draws the line against fraud, financial crime, and every bad actor trying to get past it, the engine behind fraud detection, AML, and risk for 1.6M+ members and the banking license that makes Tide possible. This is a newly created role. There's no predecessor's roadmap to inherit and no legacy decisions you're stuck defending, you're the first person in this seat, with a real mandate to decide the architecture and the AI strategy from here. If you want to build, not maintain, this is that role. You'll partner with Product, Risk, and Operations leaders to shape where this platform goes next. ABOUT THE ROLE: As a Director of Engineering at Tide you'll be: * Setting the technology strategy from a blank page — owning the roadmap for Fraud, Financial Risk, AML, AI workflows, tooling, and automation across Ongoing Monitoring, with the autonomy to decide what gets rebuilt and how. * Putting agentic AI into production, not a slide deck — building autonomous, multi-agent workflows that investigate alerts, pull external data, chain complex reasoning, and make initial risk calls in real time. * Staying ahead of adversaries who are also using AI — building detection for bot swarms, deepfake-powered KYC bypass, and algorithmic fraud loops, against a landscape that's constantly shifting: impersonation scams, APP fraud, account takeover, banking fraud. * Making high-stakes AI defensible — ensuring every system is auditable, explainable, and aligned with global AML directives and data privacy standards, because these decisions carry real regulatory weight. * Building engineering organisations across India, Eastern Europe, and the UK  an inclusive, high-performance culture that's yours to shape. * Making the ML lifecycle faster and sharper — partnering with Product, Data, AI, Risk, and Ops to improve predictive modelling and agentic AI capabilities, cutting retraining and rules-deployment time. * Turning automation into real savings — championing data-driven decisions and AI/ML opportunities that cut operational cost and friction at scale. WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR: * 15+ years of engineering experience with 5+ years in leadership roles (Director/Senior Director level). * Machine Learning: Strong experience in supervised and unsupervised models, decision trees, neural networks, and Large Language Models (LLMs). * Agent Frameworks: Hands-on experience with multi-agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, AutoGen) used to build self-correcting compliance workflows. * Fintech Domain Knowledge: Deep understanding of fraud vectors (e.g., mule accounts, account takeovers, synthetic identity fraud) and AML typologies. * Adversarial AI Security: Proven track record in detecting deepfakes, synthetic identities, and prompt injection attacks targeting financial systems. * Risk/Scale: Minimum 5+ years building and deploying production-grade, risk-scoring environments at scale. * Experience with fintech platforms - risk/compliance tooling (AML, Fraud, Financial Risk, SARs, KYX, agentic AI detections). * Excellent people leadership skills – you know how to grow and inspire teams. * Solid technical foundations: cloud-native architectures, microservices, event-driven systems, and data platforms (AWS or GCP). WHAT YOU’LL GET IN RETURN:  Our location-specific employee benefits are designed to cater to the unique needs of Tideans:  * Competitive Compensation -  competitive salary and share options * Time Off – Generous annual leave on top of bank holidays. * Parental Leave – Paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave to support your family journey. * Sabbatical – Extended unpaid and paid leave options after completing milestone years with Tide. * Health Insurance – Private family insurance with additional OPD coverage and top-up options. * Life & Accident Cover – Comprehensive accidental and life insurance protection. * Mental Wellbeing – Access to therapy sessions, courses, meditations, and workshops. * Volunteering & Development Days – Paid days annually for volunteering or personal growth. * Learning & Development – Annual budget for books, courses, coaching, and more. * WOO (Work Outside the Office) – Work from abroad for up to 90 days annually. * Home Office Setup – Contribution towards setting up your home office * Laptop Ownership – Keep your old laptop and get a new one when it’s time for a replacement. * Snacks & Meals – Office perks with snacks, coffee, tea, and lunch (location dependent). 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.   At Tide, we thrive on diversity, embracing various backgrounds and experiences. We welcome all individuals regardless of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. Our inclusive culture is key to our success, helping us build products that meet our members' diverse needs. We are One Team, committed to transparency and ensuring everyone’s voice is heard.   Disclaimer   It has come to our attention that individuals or agencies are falsely claiming to represent Tide and are reaching out to candidates regarding job opportunities. Please be aware that: * Tide does not charge any fees at any stage of the recruitment process. * All official Tide job opportunities are listed exclusively on our Careers Page and applications should be submitted through this channel. * Communication from Tide will only come from an official @tide.co email address. * Tide does not work with agencies or recruiters without prior formal engagement, and we do not authorize third parties to make job offers on our behalf. If you are contacted by anyone misrepresenting Tide or requesting payment, please treat it as fraudulent and report it to us immediately at talent@tide.co Your safety and trust are important to us, and we are committed to ensuring a fair and transparent recruitment process.   Tide leverages AI to enhance our hiring experience. You can read more about how we use AI in our recruitment process in our AI Policy. Your personal data will be processed by Tide for recruitment purposes and in accordance with Tide's Recruitment Privacy Notice.

Wheely

ABOUT WHEELY Wheely is redefining premium transportation across major cities in Europe, the US, and the Middle East. We blend cutting-edge technology with the craft of five-star chauffeuring to deliver an experience trusted by more than 100,000 active riders and 1,200 corporate accounts. We’re a profitable, fast-growing scale-up with $43M raised and over $100M in annual revenue. Having recently launched in New York City, we’re expanding rapidly across the US and EMEA. If you take pride in your craft and want to help shape the next chapter of our growth, we'd love to hear from you. ABOUT THE ROLE We're rebuilding Wheely to be the fastest and most reliable ride-hailing app on the planet — one where both the passenger app and the driver app stay responsive on a flaky signal in the back of an apartment building, keep working behind censorship firewalls, and don't drop the real-time guarantees a moving car depends on. We're also adding something nobody in this category has built seriously: privacy as a product, not a compliance footnote. This role owns the core that makes all of that possible: the platform, the infrastructure, the privacy primitives the rest of engineering builds on top of, and the internal agent harness that lets teams across the company automate work that used to need humans. You'll inherit a mostly-Go codebase and a small group of strong engineers. You'll also inherit a genuinely open question on most of what matters. Is microservices the right end state, or did we default into it? How should a backend look in 2026 when AI has absorbed a large share of routine engineering work, when QA isn't a separate function, and when a small senior team paired with a few unusually strong grads can outship a 2019-style org several times its size? Our main engineering hub is in Cyprus. We're now building up London as a second hub, and this role is part of that — you'd be one of the first senior engineering leaders on the ground here, helping shape what London looks like as a location, who we hire into it, and what work belongs where. RESPONSIBILITIES * Own the technical direction of the platform end to end — including the architectural questions that haven't been answered yet, like whether to keep moving toward microservices or reconsider. * Make real-time work, end to end. Driver app especially (location, dispatch, ride state) all of it under adversarial network conditions. * Lead the privacy story on the engineering side — what's actually different about how data flows through our systems vs. every other ride-hailing company. * Own and grow the agent harness so other teams can wire AI into workflows that used to need people. Today it's Rust. Tomorrow's shape is yours. * Help build London as an engineering hub. That means hiring into it, deciding (with the rest of the leadership team) what work makes sense in London vs Cyprus, and setting the culture for a new office while staying tightly coupled to the main hub. REQUIREMENTS * You have designed backend systems from scratch (not only maintained, scaled, or rewritten what someone else built). We'll spend real time in the interview on the trade-offs you made and why. * Real-time systems experience at consumer scale. * Several years of managing engineers, with hiring and firing calls you'd defend in detail. Total headcount matters less to us than the calibre and the outcomes. * Based in London. We sponsor visas: you don't need to be in the UK today, you just need to be willing to move. Regular travel to our Cyprus hub expected, especially early on. WHAT WE OFFER * Office-based role in West London, four days a week with flexible start and finish times, plus one remote day of your choice * Employee stock options plan * Private medical and dental insurance * Life and critical illness cover * Latest-generation MacBook Pro and 4k display * Monthly credit towards Wheely journeys * Cycle to Work scheme * Professional development stipend * Relocation support, including visa sponsorship and allowance All of your personal information will be collected stored and processed in accordance with Wheely’s Candidate Privacy Notice