Who you are

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience with ownership of APIs and production systems
• Experience building customer-facing platforms
• Comfort working with large datasets where scale, performance, and correctness matter
• Prior industry experience with Python. Java is a plus
• Experience with AWS services and serverless architectures
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken, is crucial to lead communication in our globally distributed environment
• Excited about the potential of AI-driven automation and actively using AI tools to improve productivity and engineering workflows
• Location: Berlin (hybrid setup). Taktile will not cover relocation services for this role
• Experience with large-scale data technologies such as Apache Iceberg, Athena, Spark, or similar
• Experience with React and TypeScript
• Experience building experimentation or evaluation systems
• Exposure to fraud, AML, risk, or financial decisioning domains
• We're eager to meet talented and driven candidates regardless of whether they tick all the boxes

What the job involves

• As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, you will own backend systems and APIs that operate on large volumes of decision data and expose them through customer-facing product surfaces
• Your work directly influences outcomes such as reducing false positives, improving approval rates, and increasing confidence when shipping changes to production

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