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
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build the core services of Tide’s agentic platform, connecting robust backend systems with generative AI. You will design APIs, workflow orchestration and tool integrations, productionise shared AI capabilities, create reliable and observable services, and shape reusable engineering patterns for AI-enabled workflows.
Requirements
- Strong backend or platform engineering experience in production environments
- Knowledge of APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure and service design
- Experience integrating internal and third-party platforms
- Ability to turn emerging needs into robust platform components
- Strong focus on quality, reliability and developer usability
- Experience with AI infrastructure or orchestration
- Experience in highly regulated industries
- Ability to design and build automated evaluation pipelines
- Java
- Spring Boot
- JOOQ
- RESTful APIs
- SNS
- SQS
- Kafka
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- AWS
- Docker
- Terraform
- EKS
- DataDog
- Rollbar
- GitHub
- SonarCloud
- Semgrep
- CI/CD
- Angular
- ngrx
- Flutter
- Snowflake
- Looker
- Python
- Faust
- Flask
- Tecton
Responsibilities
- Build core services for the agentic platform
- Develop APIs, workflow orchestration and tool integrations
- Integrate third-party components
- Productionise shared AI capabilities
- Design reliable, secure and observable services
- Shape reusable engineering patterns for AI-enabled workflows
- Design and build automated evaluation pipelines for agent reasoning accuracy and safety
Benefits
- 25 days paid annual leave
- 3 paid days off for volunteering or L&D activities
- Extended maternity and paternity leave
- Personal L&D budget of 500 EUR per year
- Additional health and dental insurance
- Mental wellbeing platform
- Fully covered Multisports card
- Food vouchers
- Office snacks, light food and drinks
- WFH equipment allowance
- Flexible working from home
- Sabbatical leave
- Share options