Backend Engineer, Taktile
Agents Team
Decision platform for banks and fintechs
Be an early applicant
Decision platform for banks and fintechs
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower decision makers worldwide to make smarter and safer decisions at scale.
Role
Who you are
- If you want to own backend systems end-to-end, work at the intersection of AI and distributed systems, and see your code in production fast, this role is for you
- Hybrid role based in Berlin. We collaborate in person regularly and don't offer remote-only for this position
- Fluent English required. You'll write design docs, review PRs with context, and occasionally join customer calls
- Strong engineering fundamentals: you can build clean APIs, debug production issues, optimize database queries, and know when to refactor vs. ship
- Comfortable operating systems in production and participating in incident response as part of a team rotation
- Production experience with Python: you've shipped APIs using FastAPI, Flask, or Django and understand async patterns, error handling, database transactions, and performance optimization
- Proficient in REST API design and can create endpoints that scale and maintain over time
- Prior industry experience with public cloud providers (preferably AWS)
Desirable
- Experience with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Postgres, Pydantic, or SQLAlchemy
- Familiarity with LLM application development, agent frameworks, or building platform infrastructure and developer tools
- Experience with distributed systems, async task processing, observability tooling (tracing, metrics, logging), or previous on-call experience
What the job involves
- Taktile is building a platform for creating, publishing, and executing AI-powered agents that help teams automate complex workflows in financial services
- We're looking for a Backend Engineer to join the Agents team shipping production features that power the agent execution runtime, tool orchestration, and platform infrastructure
- You'll build and ship new product features for Taktile’s AI agent platform, from idea to production
- Own backend work end-to-end: collaborate on scope, implement, test, release, and iterate based on real usage
- Help make agent workflows reliable and easy to use by improving how agents run, how they connect to external tools, and how they behave when something goes wrong
- Work closely with Product and Design, using insights from dogfooding and customer feedback to shape what we build next
- Raise the quality bar by improving maintainability, clarity, and performance as the platform grows
Our take
Taktile’s goal is to enable financial services enterprises to adopt machine learning (ML) technology and deliver ML applications. Whilst ML may seem old news, these businesses have been slow to adopt it due to a shortage of expertise, IT resources and regulatory freedom.
This means that the wealth of data at their fingertips tends to go 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.
Taktile has inspired impressive confidence in some high-profile backers, including Y Combinator, and the founders of industry behemoths like Datadog and Github. With platforms like Taktile's playing a facilitating role in the AI revolution of financial services, the road ahead should provide ample opportunity for innovation and growth.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
103% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2025
$54m
SERIES B
Nov 2022
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $78.9m
Company benefits
- Get access to a self-development budget that you can use to e.g. attend conferences, buy books or take classes
- Join us onsite in our inspiring office spaces in Berlin, NY, or London and travel to quarterly team meetings around the world
- Make an impact and meaningfully shape an early-stage company by creating new opportunities
- Experience a truly flat hierarchy. Interact with and learn directly from founding team members. Having an opinion and voicing your ideas is not only welcome but encouraged, especially when they challenge the status quo
- Get to know and learn from experienced mentors such as the founders of Looker, GitHub, Mulesoft, Datadog, and UiPath
- Use the equipment of your choice including meaningful home office set-up
- Benefit from an onboarding and training path supported by best-in-class coaches to become a true expert in your field
Company HQ
Battery Park City, New York, NY
Leadership
Maximilian Eber
(Co-Founder & CPTO)With a PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University, they went on to work in Machine Learning and Causal Inference at QuantCo.
Maik Taro Wehmeyer
(Co-Founder & CEO)Member of the European Commission European AI Alliance, and Founding Member at KI Bundesverband. Was previously a Machine Learning Engineer at QuantCo and Research Associate at Harvard Business School.
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