Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Platform
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16 days ago
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Job Summary
ABOUT TIDE
At Tide we help SMEs save time (and money) in the running of their businesses by not only offering business accounts and related banking services but also a comprehensive set of highly usable and connected administrative solutions from invoicing to accounting.
Tide is transforming the small business banking market with over 1.8 million members globally across the UK India Germany and France.
Using advanced technology all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind. With quick onboarding low fees and innovative features we thrive on making data-driven decisions to serve our mission: to help SMEs save both time (and money) so they can get back to doing what they love.
Tide facts:
- Tide is available for UK Indian German and French SMEs
- Over 1.8 million members: 800000 UK andin India and growing rapidly
- Over $300 million raised in funding
- Over 2500 Tideans globally - were diversity champions!
- We have offices in Central London with a member support and technology centre in Sofia Bulgaria technology centres in Serbia Romania Lithuania and Hyderabad and offices in Gurugram and New Delhi and in Berlin Paris and Luxembourg.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Be at the forefront of the AI revolution working on cutting-edge projects that shape the future of financial services. Youll join a passionate team focused on building high-quality scalable products with real-world impact.
Were looking for a Staff-level Backend Engineer (AI) to bridge robust backend systems with Generative AI. Youll design the frameworks standards and platforms that allow AI capabilities to scale securely reliably and efficiently across the enterprise going beyond feature delivery to influence long-term technical direction.
As a Staff Engineer youll:
- Build core services for Tides agentic platform including APIs workfloworchestration and tool integration
- Integrate bought components where they accelerate delivery and build wherecontrol trust and reuse matter most
- Work with product data platform and security teams to productionise shared AIcapabilities
- Design services that are reliable secure observable and easy for other teams toadopt
- Help shape reusable engineering patterns for AI-enabled workflows
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
- Strong backend or platform engineering experience in production environments.
- Good judgement across APIs distributed systems cloud infrastructure and service design.
- Experience integrating internal and third-party platforms.
- Comfort working in ambiguity and turning emerging needs into robust platform components.
- Strong focus on quality reliability and developer usability.
- Experience with AI infrastructure or orchestration is helpful but not essential.
- Experience in highly regulated industries (Fintech Healthtech etc.) where safety and compliance are core to the product is valuable but not essential.
- Design and build automated evaluation pipelines to measure agent reasoning accuracy and safety trajectories
Our Tech Stack:
- Java Spring Boot and JOOQ to build the RESTful APIs of our microservices (but we welcome people who are used to any strongly typed general purpose programming language!)
- Event-driven architecture with messages over SNSSQS and Kafka to make them reliable
- Primary datastores are MySQL and PostgreSQL via RDS or Aurora (we are heavy AWS users)
- Docker Terraform EKS used by the Cloud team to run the platform
- DataDog and Rollbar to keep it running
- GitHub with Sonarcloud Semgrep and solid testing to power the CI/CD pipelines - new joiners are encouraged to have something deployed to production in their first 2 weeks
- Angular 2 with ngrx on Web Flutter for the Mobile App
- Fivetran/Snowflake/Looker for the BI insights and Python/Faust/Flask/Tecton some ML libs for the automated decisioning and risk management
WHAT YOULL GET IN RETURN
- Competitive Compensation - competitive salary and share options
- Time Off Generous annual leave on top of bank holidays.
- Parental Leave Paid maternity paternity and adoption leave to support your family journey.
- Sabbatical Extended unpaid and paid leave options after completing milestone years with Tide.
- Health Insurance Private family insurance with additional OPD coverage and top-up options.
- Life & Accident Cover Comprehensive accidental and life insurance protection.
- Mental Wellbeing Access to therapy sessions courses meditations and workshops.
- Volunteering & Development Days Paid days annually for volunteering or personal growth.
- Learning & Development Annual budget for books courses coaching and more.
- WOO (Work Outside the Office) Work from abroad for up to 90 days annually.
- Home Office Setup Contribution towards setting up your home office
- Laptop Ownership Keep your old laptop and get a new one when its time for a replacement.
- Snacks & Meals Office perks with snacks coffee tea and lunch (location dependent).
TIDEAN WAYS OF WORKING
At Tide we champion a flexible workplace model that supports both in-person and remote work to cater to the specific needs of our different teams.
While remote work is supported we believe in the power of face-to-face interactions to foster team spirit and collaboration. Our offices are designed as hubs for innovation and team-building where we encourage regular in-person gatherings to foster a strong sense of community.
TIDE IS A PLACE FOR EVERYONE
At Tide we believe that we can only succeed if we let our differences enrich our culture. Our Tideans come from a variety of backgrounds and experience levels. We consider everyone irrespective of their ethnicity religion sexual orientation gender identity family or parental status national origin veteran neurodiversity or differently-abled status. We celebrate diversity in our workforce as a cornerstone of our success. Our commitment to a broad spectrum of ideas and backgrounds is what enables us to build products that resonate with our members diverse needs and lives.
We are One Team and foster a transparent and inclusive environment where everyones voice is heard.
At Tide we thrive on diversity embracing various backgrounds and experiences. We welcome all individuals regardless of ethnicity religion sexual orientation gender identity or disability. Our inclusive culture is key to our success helping us build products that meet our members diverse needs. We are One Team committed to transparency and ensuring everyones voice is heard.
- Tide doesnotcharge any fees at any stage of the recruitment process.
- All official Tide job opportunities are listed exclusively on ourCareers Pageand applications should be submitted through this channel.
- Communication from Tide will only come from an official@tide.coemail address.
- Tide does not work with agencies or recruiters without prior formal engagement and we do not authorize third parties to make job offers on our behalf.
If you are contacted by anyone misrepresenting Tide or requesting payment please treat it as fraudulent and report it to us immediately at
Your safety and trust are important to us and we are committed to ensuring a fair and transparent recruitment process.
Tide leverages AI to enhance our hiring experience. You can read more about how we use AI in our recruitment process in our AI Policy.
Your personal data will be processed by Tide for recruitment purposes and in accordance with Tides Recruitment Privacy Notice.
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About Company
All your business finance needs in one app, from banking to credit. Join over 1 million SMEs worldwide, and get back to doing what you love.
