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Salary: EUR 7,400 - 11,560 / monthly
Tide is a fintech platform serving over 2 million SMEs globally with business banking, invoicing, and accounting solutions. The company has raised over $300M and operates across the UK, India, Germany, France, and Eastern Europe with 2,800+ employees.
You will join Tide's AI engineering team as a Staff-level Backend Engineer focused on building the agentic platform. This is a high-impact role bridging robust backend systems with generative AI, where you'll design frameworks, standards, and platforms that enable AI capabilities to scale securely and reliably across the enterprise.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building core services for Tide's agentic platform: APIs, workflow orchestration, and tool integration
- Deciding when to integrate third-party components versus building in-house for control and reuse
- 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 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 usability
Valued but not required:
- AI infrastructure or orchestration experience
- Background in regulated industries (fintech, healthtech) where safety and compliance are critical
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.
Compensation: €7,400–€11,560 gross monthly, plus private health insurance, 25 days PTO, L&D budget (€500/year), mental wellness platform, WFH equipment allowance, sabbatical leave, and share options.
