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Tide is a fintech platform serving over 2 million SMEs globally with business banking, invoicing, and accounting solutions. The company has raised over $300 million and operates across the UK, India, Germany, and France with 2,800+ employees.
You'll join as a Staff-level Backend Engineer focused on building Tide's agentic AI platform. This is a high-impact role bridging robust backend systems with generative AI capabilities at scale. You'll design core services including APIs, workflow orchestration, and tool integration that enable AI features to operate securely and reliably across the enterprise.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building core services for the agentic platform (APIs, workflow orchestration, tool integration)
- Deciding when to integrate third-party components versus building proprietary solutions
- Collaborating with product, data, platform, and security teams to productionize shared AI capabilities
- Designing reliable, secure, observable services that other teams can easily adopt
- Establishing reusable engineering patterns for AI-enabled workflows
- Building automated evaluation pipelines to measure agent reasoning accuracy and safety
You'll need strong backend or platform engineering experience in production environments, solid judgment on APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and service design. Experience integrating internal and third-party platforms is important. The role values comfort working in ambiguity, strong focus on quality and reliability, and developer usability. AI infrastructure or orchestration experience is helpful but not required; fintech/regulated industry experience is valuable but optional.
Tech stack: Java, Spring Boot, JOOQ for microservices; event-driven architecture with SNS/SQS and Kafka; MySQL/PostgreSQL on AWS RDS/Aurora; Docker, Terraform, EKS; DataDog and Rollbar for observability; GitHub with CI/CD pipelines; Python/Faust/Flask for ML components.
