Backend Engineer, Taktile

• 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

• 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