Junior Backend Engineer, Taktile
Data Marketplace
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Decision platform for banks and fintechs
Open for applications
Decision platform for banks and fintechs
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower decision makers worldwide to make smarter and safer decisions at scale.
Role
Who you are
- Taktile is a hybrid company with options to work from either our Berlin HQ, or the Iasi hub. Taktile will not cover relocation services for this role
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken, is essential as we operate in a hybrid environment requiring clear and effective communication
- Strong foundational knowledge in computer science or software engineering and a passion for simplicity, quality, and ownership
- Hands-on experience programming in Python (through coursework, projects, or internships)
- Exposure to public cloud environments (AWS preferred)
Desirable
- Exposure to serverless and event-driven architectures (e.g., Lambda, queues, streams)
- Basic observability practices (tracing, metrics, structured logging)
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development and code generation
- Fintech domain exposure (KYC, credit bureaus, fraud-prevention APIs)
- Experience with internships, personal projects, or open-source contributions in backend development
What the job involves
- As a backend engineer starting your career, you will contribute to the expansion and improvement of our Data Marketplace and integration engine
- These systems enable customers to access, evaluate, and combine data providers at scale, powering millions of automated decisions every day
- Your work will help banks, fintechs, and enterprises fight fraud, expand credit, and enable financial access
- You’ll learn by working alongside experienced engineers on API aggregators, AWS, and complex backend systems, and you’ll grow your skills in building reliable, scalable software
- This role is ideal for someone who is motivated to learn quickly, thrives in collaborative environments, and wants to make an impact early in their career
- Build and maintain backend components in Python on AWS - from integrations to orchestration layers - while learning best practices in code quality, testing, and keeping CI/CD fast and reliable
- Support outcomes for the Data Marketplace: help onboard providers, implement versioning strategies, and contribute to efforts that reduce time-to-new-integration while maintaining reliability and cost-effectiveness
- Follow and apply integration standards: learn to work with API contracts/SDKs, resilience patterns (idempotency, retries, backoff), and operational guardrails that scale to millions of daily decisions
- Collaborate on projects from discovery to production launch—participating in RFCs, validating with prototypes, aligning stakeholders, and contributing to changes with observable impact
- Improve reliability and performance: support SLOs, instrumentation (tracing/metrics/logging), dashboards, and runbooks while gaining hands-on experience in reducing latency and improving MTTR
- Grow with mentorship: participate in design reviews, pair programming, and documentation efforts while learning from senior engineers
- Collaborate in the open: join daily syncs, planning, demos, and deep-dives; work with Product, Security, and Customer teams to turn real-world needs into simple, robust solutions
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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