About this role
Salary: £56,000 - 71,000 per year
Requirements: Deep experience building platform or infrastructure systems at scaleStrong judgment across APIs, distributed systems, data, and cloud-native architectureTrack record of leading complex technical problems across teamsExperience integrating third-party platforms while retaining control of core architectureStrong understanding of reliability, security, and observabilityExperience with AI platform components is valuable but not essentialExperience in highly regulated industries, such as fintech or healthtech, where safety and compliance are central to the product, is highly desirable Responsibilities: Define the architecture for our agentic platformDrive the design of shared services, including context APIs, tool layers, policy controls, and auditabilityPartner with product, data, security, and engineering teams to turn use cases into reusable platform capabilitiesSet standards for reliability, safety, scalability, and developer experienceProvide technical leadership across teams and unblock critical decisionsImplement cost-management and routing logic to optimize LLM spend across providersDesign and build automated evaluation pipelines to measure agent reasoning accuracy and safety trajectoriesMake build-versus-buy decisions, integrate external components where useful, and ensure we retain ownership of capabilities central to our trust, data advantage, and long-term platform leverage Technologies: AIAWSCloudDockerSupportJavaLLMSecuritySpringSpring BootTerraformCI/CDFlaskFlutterKafkaLookerMobileMySQLNgRxPostgreSQLPythonSnowflakeWebmicroservices More:
We are Tide, a global business financial platform helping SMEs save time and money through business accounts, banking services, and connected administrative tools. We support more than 2 million members across the UK, India, Germany, and France, and have over 2,800 Tideans globally. We are hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the architecture of our agentic platform and build shared capabilities for safe, reliable AI systems at scale. Our technology includes Java, Spring Boot, JOOQ, event-driven services, AWS, Docker, Terraform, EKS, and a range of data and monitoring tools. The role is listed in London, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Lithuania. We support flexible and remote work while encouraging in-person collaboration at our offices. Benefits include flexible working, group life and health insurance, 25 days of holiday with the option to buy more, learning and volunteering time, an annual professional development budget, salary-sacrifice benefits, enhanced family leave, and sabbatical leave. We are committed to an inclusive, transparent workplace where people from diverse backgrounds can contribute and be heard.
last updated 40 week of 2026