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
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Key highlights
- Staff-level Backend Engineer (AI) role
- Over 2 million members globally
- Great Place to Work certification
- Tech stack includes Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Kafka, and more
- Offices in multiple global locations
- Diverse and inclusive work culture
Role overview
At Tide, we help SMEs save time and money by offering business accounts, banking services, and administrative solutions like invoicing and accounting. We are transforming the small business banking market with advanced, data-driven technology and now support over 2 million members globally. This role involves being at the forefront of the AI revolution, building high-quality, scalable products with real-world impact as a Staff-level Backend Engineer (AI). You will bridge robust backend systems with Generative AI, designing frameworks, standards, and platforms to scale AI capabilities securely, reliably, and efficiently across the enterprise, while influencing long-term technical direction.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Work with product, data, platform, and security teams to productionise 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
- Design and build automated evaluation pipelines to measure agent reasoning accuracy and safety trajectories
Requirements
- 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
Nice to have
- 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
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
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, with a member support and technology centre in Sofia, Bulgaria, technology centres in Serbia, Romania, Lithuania and Hyderabad and offices in 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, AWS, 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 is a place for everyone, celebrating diversity in workforce as a cornerstone of success. Commitment to inclusivity, transparency, and ensuring everyone’s voice is heard
- Tide does not charge fees at any stage of the recruitment process
- All official job opportunities are listed exclusively on Tide’s Careers Page
- Communication from Tide will only come from an official @tide.co email address
- Tide does not work with agencies or recruiters without prior formal engagement
- Tide leverages AI to enhance the hiring experience
- Personal data will be processed by Tide for recruitment purposes in accordance with Tide's Recruitment Privacy Notice