About this role
Salary: £56,000 - 71,000 per year
Requirements: Strong backend or platform engineering experience in production environmentsGood judgment across APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and service designExperience integrating internal and third-party platformsAbility to work with ambiguity and turn emerging needs into robust platform componentsStrong focus on quality, reliability, and developer usabilityExperience with AI infrastructure or orchestration is helpful but not essentialExperience in highly regulated industries, such as fintech or healthtech, is valuable but not essentialFamiliarity with Java, Spring Boot, and JOOQ is useful; we also welcome experience with any strongly typed general-purpose programming language Responsibilities: Build core services for our agentic platform, including APIs, workflow orchestration, and tool integrationIntegrate purchased components where they accelerate delivery, and build components where control, trust, and reuse matter mostWork with product, data, platform, and security teams to productionize shared AI capabilitiesDesign reliable, secure, observable services that are easy for other teams to adoptShape reusable engineering patterns for AI-enabled workflowsDesign and build automated evaluation pipelines to measure agent reasoning accuracy and safety trajectories Technologies: AIAWSBackendCloudDockerSupportJavaMobileSecuritySpringSpring BootTerraformWebmicroservicesCI/CDFlaskFlutterKafkaLookerMySQLNgRxPostgreSQLPythonSnowflake More:
We are Tide, a financial technology company helping SMEs save time and money through business accounts, banking services, and connected administrative solutions. We support over 2 million members across the UK, India, Germany, and France, and have more than 2,800 Tideans globally. We are seeking a Staff-level Backend Engineer (AI) to help connect robust backend systems with generative AI and shape the long-term technical direction of our enterprise AI platform. Our technology includes Java, Spring Boot, microservices, event-driven architecture, AWS, Docker, Terraform, and EKS, alongside a broader data, web, and mobile stack. We offer flexible working options, supporting both remote work and in-person collaboration at our offices, including our London office near Old Street. Benefits include 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-friendly leave, and sabbatical leave. We foster an inclusive, transparent culture where people from diverse backgrounds are welcome and every voice is heard.
last updated 40 week of 2026