Description
Job Overview
Join Tide as a Staff Software Engineer on the Agentic Platform team. You'll work on cutting-edge projects that shape the future of financial services, focusing on building high-quality, scalable products with real-world impact.
Responsibilities
As a Staff-level Backend Engineer (AI), you will:
- Design frameworks, standards, and platforms for scaling AI capabilities securely and efficiently across the enterprise.
- Build core services for Tide's agentic platform, including APIs, workflow orchestration, and tool integration.
- Integrate bought components where they accelerate delivery, and build where control, trust, and reuse matter most.
- Collaborate with product, data, platform, and security teams to productionize shared AI capabilities.
- Design services that are reliable, secure, observable, and easy for other teams to adopt.
- Help shape reusable engineering patterns for AI-enabled workflows.
Requirements
- Strong backend or platform engineering experience in production environments.
- Good judgment 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.
Tech Stack
- Java, Spring Boot, and JOOQ for building RESTful APIs of microservices.
- Event-driven architecture with messages over SNS+SQS and Kafka.
- Primary datastores are MySQL and PostgreSQL via RDS or Aurora.
- Docker, Terraform, EKS used by the Cloud team to run the platform.
- DataDog and Rollbar for monitoring.
- GitHub with Sonarcloud, Semgrep, and solid testing for CI/CD pipelines.
- Angular 2+ with ngrx on Web, Flutter for the Mobile App.
- Fivetran/Snowflake/Looker for BI insights and Python/Faust/Flask/Tecton + some ML libs for automated decisioning and risk management.
Benefits
- Flexible working options.
- Group Life Insurance.
- Vitality Health Insurance with a focus on mental and physical wellbeing.
- 25 days holiday with the ability to buy extra days.
- 3 days for L&D or volunteering time off per year.
- £1,000 professional L&D budget per year.
- Access to 'salary sacrifice' benefits such as Cycle to Work scheme and pension contribution.
- Spacious brand-new office near Old Street with an all-day snacks bar.
- Enhanced family-friendly leave.
- Sabbatical leave.