Solution Architect, Taktile
Applications
$120-140k
+ Equity
Cloud native AI software for the financial services industry
Open for applications
Cloud native AI software for the financial services industry
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$120-140k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
Taktile's mission is to accelerate the adoption of Machine Learning technology in the financial industry.
Role
Who you are
- If you are passionate about cutting-edge technology, have experience in Python, Rest APIs, JavaScript and frontend development (e.g. leveraging Retool), and you enjoy collaborating with a dynamic team that encourages your growth and values your input, we want to hear from you
- You have a genuine interest in understanding our customers' and prospects' businesses, and you thrive on helping them overcome challenges
- You excel at planning and managing project scope, expectations, and timelines, ensuring that all stakeholders are aligned
- You embrace a mindset of continuous learning, demonstrating a willingness to acquire new skills and methodologies while integrating best practices into our operations
- You excel in working with peers across various departments - including Sales, Solution Engineering, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success - fostering a spirit of teamwork
- You are always on the lookout for innovative ways to engage with customers and prospects, ensuring that you stand out in a competitive landscape
- You possess a solid understanding of REST APIs, including design, integration, and authentication. Additionally, you have strong knowledge of Python, JavaScript and SQL. Familiarity with Retool and a proven track record of developing frontend applications is highly desirable. You have experience with at least one of the major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- You are a solution-oriented professional that enjoys deep technical discussions as much as transferring your technical knowledge into understandable terms to a broader audience
- You have outstanding written and spoken English skills, enabling you to convey complex ideas clearly and effectively
Desirable
- You have 2-4 years of experience as a Solution Engineer, Implementation Specialist or an equivalent position within a B2B SaaS company, or as a Frontend Engineer
- You have acquired knowledge in the financial services industry (banking, insurance, capital markets, payments, etc.), and developed internal tooling or customer-facing applications for common use cases in this industry
- Experience with data pipelines & ETL processes for large volumes of data
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Solution Architect with a track record of designing both sophisticated backend and frontend solutions for Enterprise customers to join the Taktile team on the journey of onboarding our customers, supporting them in maximizing their success with Taktile products, and ensuring they derive value from Taktile quickly and continuously!
- In this role, you will work closely with customers to understand their needs, provide them with tailored solutions, and empower them to leverage our platform efficiently.
- Collaborate with diverse customer teams, including domain experts, product managers, engineers, data scientists, and data engineers to design and develop customer-specific applications on top of the Taktile platform to support their specific requirements, such as specific case management solutions
- In collaboration with the Taktile Sales and Solutions team, you will support pilot projects during the late-stage sales cycle. Your focus will be on creating custom applications and demo templates that showcase our capabilities and address any technical concerns from customers
- Develop reusable templates and applications that can be leveraged by customers to streamline their adoption and use of the Taktile platform. This is a key to enhance overall service delivery and ensure a consistent customer experience
- Collaborate with product management to translate insights from customer interactions into actionable product improvements
Our take
Taktile’s goal is to ultimately enable its enterprise customers in the financial services industry to adopt machine learning (ML) technology and deliver ML applications. Whilst ML may seem old news, enterprise level businesses in the financial services have been slow to adopt it due to a shortage of expertise, IT resources, and regulatory freedom. The wealth of granular data at their fingertips has, therefore, gone underutilised. With Taktile, these organisations can easily deploy, maintain, and monitor ML applications on a single platform, finally putting crucial ML tools in the hands of enterprise level businesses.
Whilst Taktile is still a young company, it has inspired impressive confidence in some high-profile backers, including Y Combinator, and the founders of industry behemoths like Datadog and Github. Presumably, this is in anticipation of the reported wave of AI transformation about to break over the financial services - nearly 90% of financial services execs, by one report, plan on boosting their AI investments over the coming years.
Platforms like Taktile may well prove a crucial facilitating force in this rising tide, and a fertile ground for new innovation - alternatively, enterprises could follow the lead of more agile startups and take their ML development in-house. The latter may, in fact, seem a more attractive long-term solution, so Taktile will need to ensure its platform remains convincingly superior. However, evidence of sustained investor interest in Taktile came from its November 22 Series A funding to the sum of $20 million.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2022
$20m
SERIES A
Aug 2021
$4.7m
SEED
Total funding: $24.7m
Company benefits
- Work with colleagues that lift you up, challenge you, celebrate you and help you grow. We come from many different backgrounds, but what we have in common is the desire to operate at the very top of our fields. If you are similarly capable, caring, and driven, you'll find yourself at home here
- Make an impact and meaningfully shape an early-stage company
- Experience a truly flat hierarchy and communicate directly with founding team members. Having an opinion and voicing your ideas is not only welcome but encouraged, especially when they challenge the status quo
- Learn from experienced mentors and achieve tremendous personal and professional growth. Get to know and leverage our network of leading tech investors and advisors around the globe
- Receive a top-of-market compensation package
- Get access to a self-development budget you can use to e.g. attend conferences, buy books or take classes
- Use the equipment of your choice including meaningful home office setup during the COVID-19 pandemic
Company values
- Passionate Responsibility - We all behave like owners, take individual responsibility for achieving Taktile's goals, and do what we have to in order to succeed
- Growth Mindset - We are intellectually curious, want to get better individually and as a team, and inspire others with our thirst for growth
- Desire For Impact - We want to do things that matter for the world and contribute to a bigger picture.
- Creative Pragmatism - We care about solving problems in the most effective possible way. We know when innovation is necessary, but don't re-invent the wheel.
Company HQ
Battery Park City, New York, NY
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Leadership
Maximilian Eber
(CPTO & Co-founder)With a PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University, he went on to on Machine Learning and Causal Inference at QuantCo.
Maik Taro Wehmeyer
(CEO & Co-Founder)Currently Member at European Commission, Founding Member at KI Bundesverband e.V. Previously Machine Learning Engineer at QuantCo and Research Associate at Harvard Business School.
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