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.
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Bengaluru · RequiredBerlin · RequiredBulgaria · RequiredDelhi NCR · RequiredEurope · RequiredGermany · RequiredHyderabad · RequiredIndia · RequiredLithuania · RequiredLondon · RequiredSerbia · RequiredSofia · RequiredUnited Kingdom · Required
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About the Role
You will lead the architecture of an agentic platform and shape shared capabilities for safe, reliable, and scalable AI systems. You will define platform services, guide build-versus-buy decisions, establish reliability and security standards, optimise LLM costs, and build evaluation pipelines for agent reasoning and safety.
Requirements
- Deep experience building platform or infrastructure systems at scale
- Strong judgement across APIs, distributed systems, data, and cloud-native architecture
- Track record of leading complex cross-team technical problems
- Experience integrating third-party platforms
- Strong understanding of reliability, security, and observability
- Experience with AI platform components is valuable
- Experience in highly regulated industries is desirable
Responsibilities
- Define the architecture for the agentic platform
- Design shared services including context APIs, tool layers, policy controls, and auditability
- Partner with product, data, security, and engineering teams to develop reusable platform capabilities
- Set standards for reliability, safety, scalability, and developer experience
- Provide technical leadership across teams
- Drive critical technical decisions
- Implement cost-management and routing logic for LLM providers
- Design and build automated evaluation pipelines for agent reasoning accuracy and safety