Senior Staff Software Engineer Agentic Platform
Tide is a UK-founded fintech business financial platform providing banking and financial-management services to small businesses and sole traders.
London, United Kingdom
About Tide
Tide Platform Limited operates Tide, offering business accounts, payments, accounting and tax tools, savings, payroll, and business finance. Tide is FCA-authorised for electronic-money and payment services and is not itself a bank; its business bank accounts are provided through partner banks including ClearBank.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Lead the architecture of Tide's agentic platform and build shared capabilities for context, orchestration, tool execution, trust controls, observability, and evaluation.
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 Tide’s 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
- Gross monthly salary ranging from 7400 EUR to 11560 EUR
- Private health insurance
- 25 days paid annual leave
- 3 paid days off for volunteering or L&D activities
- Parental leave days
- Family-friendly leave
- Personal L&D budget of 500 EUR per year
- Mental wellbeing platform
- WFH equipment allowance
- Sabbatical leave
- Share options
- Team events