Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Platform
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Tide helps SMEs save time and money in running their businesses by offering business accounts and administrative solutions.
Tide supports over 2 million members globally across the UK, India, Germany and France.
Tide has offices in Central London, Sofia, Serbia, Romania, Lithuania, Hyderabad, Gurugram, New Delhi, Berlin, Paris and Luxembourg.
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About Tide
Tide helps SMEs save time and money in running their businesses by offering business accounts and administrative solutions.
Tide supports over 2 million members globally across the UK, India, Germany and France.
Tide has offices in Central London, Sofia, Serbia, Romania, Lithuania, Hyderabad, Gurugram, New Delhi, Berlin, Paris and Luxembourg.
About the Role
Be at the forefront of the AI revolution, working on cutting-edge projects that shape the future of financial services.
Join a passionate team focused on building high-quality, scalable products with real-world impact.
We're looking for a Staff-level Backend Engineer (AI) to bridge robust backend systems with Generative AI.
As a Staff Engineer You Will
- Build core services for Tide's agentic platform, including APIs, workflow orchestration, and tool integration.
- Integrate bought components where they accelerate delivery, and build where control, trust, and reuse matter most.
- Work with product, data, platform, and security teams to productionise shared AI capabilities.
- Design services that are reliable, secure, observable, and easy for other teams to adopt.
- Help shape reusable engineering patterns for AI-enabled workflows.
What We Are Looking For
- Strong backend or platform engineering experience in production environments.
- Good judgement across APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and service design.
- Experience integrating internal and third-party platforms.
- Comfort working in ambiguity and turning emerging needs into robust platform components.
- Strong focus on quality, reliability, and developer usability.
- Experience with AI infrastructure or orchestration is helpful, but not essential.
- Experience in highly regulated industries (Fintech, Healthtech, etc.) is valuable, but not essential.
- Design and build automated evaluation pipelines to measure agent reasoning accuracy and safety trajectories.
Our Tech Stack
- Java, Spring Boot and JOOQ to build RESTful APIs of microservices.
- Event-driven architecture with messages over SNS+SQS and Kafka.
- Primary datastores are MySQL and PostgreSQL via RDS or Aurora (heavy AWS users).
- Docker, Terraform, EKS used by the Cloud team to run the platform.
- DataDog and Rollbar to keep it running.
- GitHub with Sonarcloud, Semgrep and solid testing to power CI/CD pipelines.
- Angular 2+ with ngrx on Web, Flutter for the Mobile App.
- Fivetran/Snowflake/Looker for BI insights and Python/Faust/Flask/Tecton + ML libs for automated decisioning.
What You'll Get in Return
- Flexible working options.
- Group Life Insurance.
- Vitality Health Insurance with proactive focus on mental and physical wellbeing.
- 25 days holiday with ability to buy extra days.
- 3 days for L&D or volunteering time off per year.
- £1,000 professional L&D budget per year.
- Access to 'salary sacrifice' benefits such as Cycle to Work scheme and pension contribution.
- Spacious brand-new office near Old Street with all-day snacks bar.
- Enhanced family-friendly leave.
- Sabbatical leave.
Tidean Ways of Working
- Tide champions a flexible workplace model that supports both in-person and remote work.
- While remote work is supported, offices are designed as hubs for innovation and team-building.
- Regular in-person gatherings are encouraged to foster a strong sense of community.
Tide is a Place for Everyone
Tide believes success comes from letting differences enrich culture.
Tide considers everyone irrespective of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity or differently-abled status.
Tide is One Team and fosters a transparent and inclusive environment.
About tide
UK fintech business-finance platform providing accounts, credit, payments, and administrative tools to small businesses.
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