Senior Staff Software Engineer Agentic Platform
Tide is a UK business-banking fintech for small and medium enterprises (tide.co), a Speedinvest portfolio company.
About Tide
Tide is a UK financial-technology company providing business banking and financial services to small and medium enterprises (tide.co). It is a portfolio company of Speedinvest.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Bengaluru · RequiredDelhi NCR · RequiredHyderabad · RequiredIndia · RequiredOnsite · RequiredRemote · Required
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead the architecture of an agentic platform and build shared capabilities for context, orchestration, tool execution, trust controls, observability, and evaluation. You will guide cross-team technical decisions, optimize LLM spending, and create reliable automated evaluation pipelines for agent accuracy and safety.
Requirements
- Deep experience building platform or infrastructure systems at scale
- Strong judgment across APIs, distributed systems, data, and cloud-native architecture
- Track record of leading complex cross-team technical problems
- Experience integrating third-party platforms while retaining control of core architecture
- Strong understanding of reliability, security, and observability
- Experience with AI platform components is valuable but not essential
- Experience in highly regulated industries is highly desirable
Responsibilities
- Define the architecture for the agentic platform
- Design shared services such as context APIs, tool layers, policy controls, and auditability
- Partner with product, data, security, and engineering teams to create reusable platform capabilities
- Set standards for reliability, safety, scalability, and developer experience
- Provide technical leadership across teams and unblock critical decisions
- Implement cost-management and routing logic to optimize LLM spending
- Design and build automated evaluation pipelines for agent reasoning accuracy and safety
Benefits
- Competitive salary and share options
- Generous annual leave on top of bank holidays
- Paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Extended unpaid and paid leave options
- Private family health insurance with additional OPD coverage and top-up options
- Life and accident insurance
- Therapy sessions, courses, meditations, and workshops
- Paid volunteering and personal growth days
- Annual learning and development budget
- Work from abroad for up to 90 days annually
- Home office setup contribution
- Laptop replacement program
- Office snacks, coffee, tea, and lunch
