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.
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Build the core services of Tide’s agentic platform, connecting robust backend systems with generative AI. Design APIs, workflow orchestration, tool integrations, shared AI capabilities, reliable observable services, and 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 is valuable
- 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, and 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