Senior Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Platform

As Senior Staff Software Engineer at Tide, you will architect and lead the agentic platform that enables AI systems to operate safely, reliably, and at scale. You’ll shape shared capabilities (context, orchestration, tool execution, trust controls, observability, evaluation) and guide build-vs-buy decisions, integrating external components while maintaining core architectural control. You’ll partner with product, data, security, and engineering teams to turn use cases into reusable platform services and set standards for reliability, safety, and developer experience. You’ll optimise costs for LLM providers, and design automated evaluation pipelines to measure reasoning and safety. This role”

• Define the architecture for Tide’s agentic platform
• Design and shape shared services (context APIs, tool layers, policy controls, auditability)
• Collaborate with product, data, security, and engineering to translate use cases into platform capabilities
• Set standards for reliability, safety, scalability, and developer experience
• Provide technical leadership across teams and unblock critical decisions
• Implement cost-management and routing logic to optimise LLM spend
• Design and build automated evaluation pipelines for agent reasoning accuracy and safety trajectories

• Deep experience building platform or infrastructure systems at scale
• Strong judgement across APIs, distributed systems, data, and cloud-native architecture
• Track record of leading complex cross-team technical problems
• Experience integrating third-party platforms without compromising core architecture
• Strong understanding of reliability, security, and observability
• Experience with AI platform components is valuable but not essential
• Experience in highly regulated industries (Fintech, Healthtech, etc.) is highly desirable

• cross-functional collaboration
• technical leadership
• sound judgement
• Java
• Spring Boot
• JOOQ