Senior Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Platform
Tide
Berlin, Germany; Bulgaria; India, Bengaluru; India, Delhi NCR; India, Hyderabad; Lithuania; Serbia; United KingdomPosted 26 days ago
Skill Required
One PlatformPlatform EngineerSoftware EngineerSoftware DeveloperSystem DesignMicroservicesObservabilityCD pipelinesSpring BootEngineeringR ProgrammingPostgreSQLSnowflakeTerraformsecuritybuildingAngularFlutterDatadogfintechetc.)RESTTestNGPythonLookerDockerdesignGitFlask
Key highlights
- Senior Staff Software Engineer role
- Lead architecture of Tide’s agentic platform
- Great Place to Work certified
- Over 2 million members globally
- Offices across UK, India, and Europe
- Diverse and inclusive culture
Role overview
Tide is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the architecture of its agentic platform. This role involves shaping shared capabilities that enable AI systems to operate safely, reliably, and at scale across Tide, including context, orchestration, tool execution, trust controls, observability, and evaluation. The engineer will drive key build vs. buy decisions, integrate external components where beneficial, and ensure ownership of critical parts of Tide’s trust, data advantage, and long-term platform leverage.
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
- Partner 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
Nice to have
- Experience with AI platform components
- Experience in highly regulated industries (Fintech, Healthtech, etc.) where safety and compliance are core to the product
Benefits
- Great Place to Work certification three years in a row
- Among India’s Top 50 Best Workplaces in Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance in 2026
- Diverse and inclusive work environment with a commitment to transparency and ensuring everyone’s voice is heard
Additional details
- Tide is available for UK, Indian, German and French SMEs
- Over 2 million members: 900,000 UK and 1,100,000 in India and growing rapidly
- Over $300 million raised in funding
- Over 2,800 Tideans globally
- Offices in Central London, Sofia (Bulgaria), Serbia, Romania, Lithuania, Hyderabad, Gurugram, New Delhi, Berlin, Paris, and Luxembourg
- Hiring across multiple locations: India (Hyderabad, Delhi NCR, Bengaluru), Europe (London, Serbia, Sofia, Lithuania, Berlin)
- Tech Stack: Java, Spring Boot, JOOQ, RESTful APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture (SNS+SQS, Kafka), MySQL, PostgreSQL (RDS/Aurora), Docker, Terraform, EKS, DataDog, Rollbar, GitHub, Sonarcloud, Semgrep, Angular 2+, ngrx, Flutter, Fivetran, Snowflake, Looker, Python, Faust, Flask, Tecton, ML libraries
- New joiners are encouraged to have something deployed to production in their first 2 weeks
- Tide does not charge fees at any stage of the recruitment process
- All official job opportunities are listed on Tide’s Careers Page
- Communication from Tide only comes from an official @tide.co email address
- Tide does not work with unauthorized agencies or recruiters
- Tide leverages AI to enhance the hiring experience (see AI Policy)
- Personal data processed in accordance with Tide’s Recruitment Privacy Notice