Who you are

• 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)
• 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

What the job involves

• 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

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