Backend Engineer - Agents Team

Taktile is building a platform for creating, publishing, and executing AI-powered agents that help teams automate complex workflows in financial services. We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join the Agents team shipping production features that power the agent execution runtime, tool orchestration, and platform infrastructure. 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• Hybrid role based in Berlin. We collaborate in person regularly and don’t offer remote-only for this position.
• Fluent English required. You will 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.

Required Experience

• Production experience with Python: you have 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).

Ideal, But Not Required

• 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.

Our Offer

• Work with colleagues that lift you up, challenge you, celebrate you and help you grow.
• Experience a truly flat hierarchy and communicate directly with founding team members.
• Learn from experienced mentors and achieve tremendous personal and professional growth.
• Receive a top-of-market equity and cash compensation package.
• Get access to a self-development budget you can use to e.g. attend conferences, buy books or take classes.
• Receive a new Apple MacBook Pro, as well as meaningful home office set-up.

Our Stance

We are eager to meet talented and driven candidates regardless of whether they tick all the boxes. We are looking for someone who will add to our culture, not just fit within it. We strongly encourage individuals from groups traditionally underestimated and underrepresented in tech to apply. We seek to actively recognize and combat racism, sexism, ableism and ageism. We embrace and support all gender identities and expressions, and celebrate love in its many forms.

About Us

Taktile helps financial institutions make smarter, safer decisions with the power of AI. Our software gives teams the tools to automate complex decisions like who to onboard, how to underwrite, or when to flag suspicious activity with full visibility and control. By combining AI with a rich ecosystem of financial data, Taktile enables companies to adapt their decision-making in real time as markets, customer behavior, and risks evolve.