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TideSenior Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Platform
Tide needs a Senior Staff Software Engineer who will shape the architecture of its agentic platform. The platform supplies shared building blocks that let AI systems…
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Tide needs a Senior Staff Software Engineer who will shape the architecture of its agentic platform. The platform supplies shared building blocks that let AI systems operate dependably and at large scale throughout Tide, covering context management, workflow orchestration, tool calls, trust and policy controls, monitoring and evaluation. The engineer weighs build-or-buy choices, adds third-party parts when they help, and holds on to the pieces that carry the most weight…
Job Description
Tide needs a Senior Staff Software Engineer who will shape the architecture of its agentic platform. The platform supplies shared building blocks that let AI systems operate dependably and at large scale throughout Tide, covering context management, workflow orchestration, tool calls, trust and policy controls, monitoring and evaluation. The engineer weighs build-or-buy choices, adds third-party parts when they help, and holds on to the pieces that carry the most weight for trust, data and long-term leverage.
The engineer shapes the platform's architecture and leads shared services that cover audit trails, policy controls, tool layers and context APIs. The role works alongside product, data, security and engineering groups to convert use cases into reusable capabilities, defines the bar for reliability, safety, scale and developer experience, and offers technical leadership across the organization. Other duties include controlling LLM spend by routing work across providers, and building automated evaluation pipelines that measure how accurately and safely agents reason.
The ideal candidate has constructed platform or infrastructure systems that run at scale and shows sound judgment on API design, distributed computing, data and cloud-native design. They have led hard technical problems across teams, brought third-party platforms in without surrendering control of the core architecture, and understand reliability, security and observability. Experience in highly regulated fields such as fintech or healthtech is highly desirable. The posting also invites newcomers to get something live in production within their first fortnight.
The back end runs on Java, Spring Boot and jOOQ for RESTful microservices, with messaging over SNS, SQS and Kafka and MySQL or PostgreSQL on AWS RDS or Aurora. Docker, Terraform and EKS host the platform, with Datadog, Rollbar, GitHub, SonarCloud and Semgrep supporting operations and delivery. Web work uses Angular with ngrx, mobile uses Flutter, and the data and ML stack includes Fivetran, Snowflake, Looker, Python, Faust, Flask, Tecton and ML libraries.
Responsibilities
- Define the architecture of Tide's agentic platform
- Lead design of common services covering audit trails, policy controls, tool layers and context APIs
- Collaborate across product, data, security and engineering groups to make repeatable capabilities out of use cases
- Define the bar on reliability, safety, scale and developer experience
- Give hands-on technical direction to several groups and settle key choices
- Build cost controls and routing logic to manage LLM spend across providers
- Build automated evaluation pipelines for agent reasoning accuracy and safety
- Take part in build-or-buy decisions and integrate external components
Requirements
- Extensive background constructing platform or infrastructure systems that run at scale
- Sound judgment spanning API design, distributed computing, data and cloud-native architecture
- Proven record of solving intricate technical issues that cut across teams
- Experience bringing third-party platforms in while keeping control of the core architecture
- A strong grasp of reliability, security and observability
- Working fluency in a statically typed language built for general use
Qualifications
- Experience with AI platform components, which is valued but not essential
- Experience in highly regulated fields such as fintech or healthtech, which is highly desirable
Core Skills
Benefits
- Private health insurance
- 25 days of paid annual leave
- 3 paid days for volunteering or learning and development
- Parental leave and family-friendly leave
- A personal learning budget of 500 EUR per year
- A mental wellbeing platform
- A work-from-home equipment allowance
- Sabbatical leave and share options
- Team events
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Where is the role based?
The listing is tagged United Kingdom. The posting describes a flexible model that mixes in-person and remote work.
What is the salary?
The posting gives a gross monthly range of 7,400 to 11,560, depending on skills and experience. The currency sign does not display in the source.
Which technical experience matters most?
Building platform and distributed systems at scale, strong API and cloud-native architecture skills, and experience with reliability, security and observability.
Is AI experience required?
No. AI platform experience is valued but not essential, while experience in a highly regulated industry is highly desirable.
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