Staff Backend Engineer, AI-Driven Agent Platform

Tide; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Group Life Insurance

Health Insurance

25 days holiday

Learning and Development budget

Sabbatical leave

Job summary

A leading fintech company in the UK is seeking a Staff-level Backend Engineer (AI) to enhance backend systems and integrate Generative AI capabilities. Responsibilities include building core services, designing reliable services, and collaborating across teams to productionise AI solutions. Ideal candidates should possess strong backend engineering skills, experience in distributed systems, and a good understanding of cloud infrastructure. The role offers flexible working options and comprehensive benefits focused on personal and professional development.

Qualifications

• Strong backend or platform engineering experience in production environments.
• Good judgement across APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and service design.
• Comfort working in ambiguity and turning emerging needs into robust platform components.

Responsibilities

• Build core services for Tide’s agentic platform, including APIs and tool integration.
• Work with product and security teams to productionise shared AI capabilities.
• Design and build automated evaluation pipelines for AI reasoning accuracy.

Skills

Backend or platform engineering experience

APIs and distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Service design

Quality and reliability focus

AI infrastructure familiarity

Experience in regulated industries

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

JOOQ

PostgreSQL

Docker

Terraform

DataDog

GitHub

Job description

A leading fintech company in the UK is seeking a Staff-level Backend Engineer (AI) to enhance backend systems and integrate Generative AI capabilities. Responsibilities include building core services, designing reliable services, and collaborating across teams to productionise AI solutions. Ideal candidates should possess strong backend engineering skills, experience in distributed systems, and a good understanding of cloud infrastructure. The role offers flexible working options and comprehensive benefits focused on personal and professional development.