Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Platform

Overview

In this Staff Engineer role, you will shape Tide’s AI-enabled backend platforms, building scalable services and orchestration to power AI-powered decisions. You’ll collaborate with product, data, platform, and security teams to productionise shared AI capabilities, while setting standards for reliability, security, and developer usability. You’ll influence long-term technical direction and help create reusable patterns for AI-enabled workflows. This is a chance to impact financial services at scale with innovative, secure AI infrastructure.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible working options
• Group Life Insurance
• Vitality Health Insurance
• 25 days holiday
• L&D budget
• Cycle to Work/Pension

Responsibilities

• Build core backend services and APIs for Tide’s agentic platform
• Integrate third-party and internal components to accelerate delivery
• Collaborate with product, data, platform, and security teams to productionise AI capabilities
• Design reliable, secure, observable services that are easy for other teams to adopt
• Shape reusable engineering patterns for AI-enabled workflows

Key requirements

• Strong backend or platform engineering in production
• Sound judgment across APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and service design
• Experience integrating internal and third-party platforms
• Ability to work in ambiguity and translate needs into robust platform components
• Commitment to quality, reliability, and developer usability
• Experience with AI infrastructure or orchestration is helpful but not essential
• Experience in regulated industries (Fintech, Healthtech) where safety/compliance is valuable but not essential
• Design and build automated evaluation pipelines to measure agent reasoning accuracy and safety trajectories

• collaboration with cross-functional teams
• adaptability in ambiguous environments
• communication and developer usability focus
• Backend engineering in production
• APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, service design
• Integration of internal and third-party platforms

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