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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 frameworks that enable AI features to scale 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
- Shaping reusable engineering patterns for AI-enabled workflows
- Designing and building automated evaluation pipelines for agent reasoning accuracy and safety
You'll work with a modern tech stack: Java/Spring Boot for microservices, event-driven architecture (SNS/SQS, Kafka), MySQL/PostgreSQL on AWS, Docker/Terraform/EKS, DataDog/Rollbar for observability, and GitHub with strong CI/CD practices.
Required experience: strong backend or platform engineering in production environments, solid judgment on APIs/distributed systems/cloud infrastructure, experience integrating internal and third-party platforms, comfort with ambiguity, and focus on quality and developer usability. AI infrastructure or orchestration experience is helpful but not required. Fintech or regulated industry experience is valuable but not essential.
Tide offers flexible working, comprehensive health insurance, 25 days holiday, £1,000 annual L&D budget, and a modern office near Old Street in London.
