Senior Backend Engineer, Taktile

• 7+ years building and owning production backend systems
• Comfort working with large datasets
• Prior industry experience with Python. Java is a plus
• Experience with AWS services and serverless architectures
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken
• We're eager to meet talented and driven candidates regardless of whether they tick all the boxes

Desirable

• As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, you will own backend systems and APIs operating on large volumes of decision data and expose them through customer-facing product surfaces. Your work directly impacts false positive rates, approval rates, and confidence in shipping production changes
• At scale, the systems you build will:
• Process millions of decisions per day
• Persist and query terabytes of data per day
• Execute large-scale experiments over billions of historical decisions
• Serve low-latency APIs on top of append-heavy datasets
• Build and own backend services in Python / FastAPI on AWS serverless infrastructure
• Design and evolve high-scale subsystems operating on historical decision data
• Maintain a high bar for code quality, system reliability, and delivery velocity
• Collaborate cross-functionally to translate business problems into scalable technical systems
• Operate in a high-leverage environment where AI-assisted and agentic coding are embedded into daily workflows, with access to state-of-the-art coding models and the autonomy to use them deeply while maintaining strong engineering standards