Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Platform

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.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

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

Nice to have

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

Benefits

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; Share options; Team Events