Back-End Engineer, Taktile

Team Agents

Salary not provided

+ Receive a top-of-market equity and cash compensation package

SQL

React

AWS

TypeScript

Python

Postgres

REST API

Simplicity

DynamoDB

FastAPI

Pydantic

Mid and Senior level

Berlin

3 days a week in office

Agentic decision platform for financial institutions

Be an early applicant

Agentic decision platform for financial institutions

201-500 employees

FintechCredit ScoringB2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseBig dataMachine LearningFinancial ServicesSaaSCloud Computing

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

+ Receive a top-of-market equity and cash compensation package

SQL

React

AWS

TypeScript

Python

Postgres

REST API

Simplicity

DynamoDB

FastAPI

Pydantic

Mid and Senior level

Berlin

3 days a week in office

201-500 employees

FintechCredit ScoringB2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseBig dataMachine LearningFinancial ServicesSaaSCloud Computing

Company mission

To empower financial institutions to quickly unlock AI-driven efficiencies across the customer lifecycle, reducing manual work while optimizing decisions and enabling seamless end-user experiences.

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Role

Who you are

Strong engineering fundamentals with a passion for simplicity and precision
Fluency in English, both written and spoken, is essential as we operate in a remote environment requiring clear and effective communication. Strong English skills are also crucial to efficiently interacting with AI
Prior industry experience with Python back-end development (this is not an entry-level position)
Experience building and operating RESTful APIs and working with databases
Experience integrating into AWS or similar cloud providers
We're eager to meet talented and driven candidates regardless of whether they tick all the boxes

Desirable

FastAPI and Pydantic experience
DynamoDB or Postgres, SQLAlchemy
Exposure to LLM application development, agent frameworks, or building developer tools
Prior ops or on-call experience
Experience with distributed systems, async task processing, or observability tooling (tracing, metrics, logging)

What the job involves

We are hiring a Back-End Engineer to help build and ship production features across this stack. You'll work alongside experienced engineers, contribute to real product impact from day one, and grow your skills in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment
Build and ship backend features for Taktile's AI agent platform in Python (FastAPI), deployed on AWS serverless infrastructure
Own your work end-to-end: collaborate on scope, implement, test, release, and iterate based on real usage and customer feedback
Improve how agents run, how they connect to external tools, and how they behave when something goes wrong
Use leading-edge AI tools (e.g. Claude) on a daily basis to move faster, improve quality, and build AI-native capabilities where it makes sense
Review pull requests with depth, improve test coverage and CI/CD, and raise the bar on reliability and engineering excellence
Engage actively in team rituals such as daily syncs, planning sessions, demos, and technical deep-dive discussions
Grow as an individual and accelerate your career by learning from experienced team members, contributing to a foundational layer of the product, and joining cross-team learning groups
For career growth at Taktile, this role will involve daytime ops duty and at some point joining an on-call rotation, so you need to have passion for owning systems end to end and grow your DevSecOps skills as well
Technical stack:
Backend: Python (FastAPI, Pydantic)
Data: DynamoDB, Postgres
Cloud: AWS serverless (Lambda, API Gateway)
AI: LLM orchestration, tool-use frameworks, streaming execution
Frontend: React, TypeScript (you will collaborate closely, but this is not a front-end role)

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 underutilized. With Taktile, these organizations 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.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

103% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.9)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Feb 2025

$54m

SERIES B

Nov 2022

$20m

SERIES A

Total funding: $78.9m

Company HQ

Chelsea, New York, NY

Leadership

Maximilian Eber

(Co-Founder & CPTO)

Maximilian holds a PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University. Prior to co-founding Taktile in 2020, he worked in Machine Learning and Casual Interface at QuantCo for over 4 years.

Maik Taro Wehmeyer

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Maik is a Member of the European Commission European AI Alliance, and Founding Member at KI Bundesverband. Previously, he was a Machine Learning Engineer at QuantCo and a Research Associate at Harvard Business School.

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