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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 will join Tide's agentic AI platform team as a Staff-level Backend Engineer, working at the intersection of robust backend systems and generative AI. This is a high-impact role focused on building the foundational infrastructure that enables AI capabilities to scale securely and reliably across the enterprise.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design and build core services for the agentic platform: APIs, workflow orchestration, and tool integration frameworks
- Make strategic build-vs-buy decisions, integrating third-party components where they accelerate delivery while building proprietary solutions where control, trust, and reuse are critical
- Collaborate with product, data, platform, and security teams to productionize shared AI capabilities
- Design services that prioritize reliability, security, observability, and ease of adoption by other engineering teams
- Establish reusable engineering patterns and standards for AI-enabled workflows
- Design and build automated evaluation pipelines to measure agent reasoning accuracy and safety
Required experience:
- Strong backend or platform engineering background in production environments
- Solid judgment across APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and service design
- Experience integrating internal and third-party platforms
- Comfort working in ambiguity and translating emerging needs into robust platform components
- Strong focus on quality, reliability, and developer experience
Valued but not required:
- AI infrastructure or orchestration experience
- Background in highly regulated industries (fintech, healthtech) where safety and compliance are core
Tech stack: Java, Spring Boot, JOOQ, event-driven architecture (SNS/SQS, Kafka), MySQL/PostgreSQL, AWS (Docker, Terraform, EKS), DataDog, Rollbar, GitHub with CI/CD automation.
Tide offers remote-first work, 25 days annual leave, mental health support, L&D budget, share options, and flexible workplace arrangements.
