Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Platform

ABOUT THE ROLE

Be at the forefront of the AI revolution, working on cutting-edge projects that shape the future of financial services. You’ll join a passionate team focused on building high-quality, scalable products with real-world impact.

We’re looking for a Staff-level Backend Engineer (AI) to bridge robust backend systems with Generative AI. You’ll design the frameworks, standards, and platforms that allow AI capabilities to scale securely, reliably, and efficiently across the enterprise, going beyond feature delivery to influence long-term technical direction.

AS A STAFF ENGINEER YOU WILL BE:

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

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

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.

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.

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

OUR TECH STACK:

Java, Spring Boot and JOOQ to build the RESTful APIs of our microservices (but we welcome people who are used to any strongly typed general purpose programming language!)

Event-driven architecture with messages over SNS+SQS and Kafka to make them reliable

Primary datastores are MySQL and PostgreSQL via RDS or Aurora (we are heavy AWS users)

Docker, Terraform, EKS used by the Cloud team to run the platform

DataDog and Rollbar to keep it running

GitHub with Sonarcloud, Semgrep and solid testing to power the CI/CD pipelines - new joiners are encouraged to have something deployed to production in their first 2 weeks

Angular 2+ with ngrx on Web, Flutter for the Mobile App

Fivetran/Snowflake/Looker for the BI insights and Python/Faust/Flask/Tecton + some ML libs for the automated decisioning and risk management

WHAT YOU’LL GET IN RETURN

The gross monthly salary for this position ranges from 7400€ to 11560€, depending on your skills, and experience.

Private Health Insurance

25 days paid annual leave

3 paid days off for volunteering or L&D activities

Parental Leave days

Family-Friendly Leave

Personal L&D budget in the amount of 500 EUR per year

Mental wellbeing platform Plumm

WFH equipment allowance

Sabbatical Leave

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TIDEAN WAYS OF WORKING

At Tide, we champion a flexible workplace model that supports both in-person and remote work to cater to the specific needs of our different teams.

While remote work is supported, we believe in the power of face-to-face interactions to foster team spirit and collaboration. Our offices are designed as hubs for innovation and team-building, where we encourage regular in-person gatherings to foster a strong sense of community.