# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Platform

**Company**: Tide
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Tide is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the architecture of its agentic platform.

You will shape the shared capabilities that allow AI systems to operate safely, reliably, and at scale across Tide. This includes context, orchestration, tool execution, trust controls, observability, and evaluation. You will participate in key build versus buy decisions, integrate external components where they accelerate Tide, and ensure ownership of critical parts.

## Responsibilities

- Define the architecture for Tide's agentic platform

- Drive the design of shared services such as context APIs, tool layers, policy controls, and auditability

- Collaborate with product, data, security, and engineering teams to turn use cases into reusable platform capabilities

- Set standards for reliability, safety, scalability, and developer experience

- Provide technical leadership across teams and unblock critical decisions

- Implement cost-management and routing logic to optimize LLM spend across different providers

- Design and build automated evaluation pipelines to measure agent reasoning accuracy and safety trajectories

## Requirements

- Deep experience building platform or infrastructure systems at scale

- Strong judgement across APIs, distributed systems, data, and cloud-native architecture

- Track record of leading complex cross-team technical problems

- Experience integrating third-party platforms without losing control of core architecture

- Strong understanding of reliability, security, and observability

- Experience with AI platform components is valuable, but not essential

- Experience in highly regulated industries (Fintech, Healthtech, etc.) where safety and compliance are core to the product is highly desirable

## Tech Stack

- Java, Spring Boot, and JOOQ for building RESTful APIs

- Event-driven architecture with SNS+SQS and Kafka

- Primary datastores are MySQL and PostgreSQL via RDS or Aurora

- Docker, Terraform, EKS for cloud operations

- 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

- 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

- Spacious brand-new office near Old Street

- Enhanced family-friendly leave

- Sabbatical leave

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Spring Boot
- JOOQ
- Event-driven architecture
- Distributed systems
- Cloud-native architecture
- API design
- Reliability
- Security
- Observability
- AI platform components

### Nice to have
- Experience with AI platform components
- Experience in highly regulated industries

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