Python Backend Engineer

Permanent employee, Full-time · Berlin, Romania

About the role

Join our Integrations team as a Back-end Software Engineer and play a pivotal role in the development of our decisioning products at Taktile. If you thrive in building cutting-edge software solutions, have a background in Python and AWS, and cherish working in a collaborative team that fosters professional growth, this position is perfect for you.

Location
Taktile is a hybrid company with options to work from our Berlin HQ in Germany or the Iasi Hub in Romania.

Language
Fluency in English, both written and spoken, is essential as we operate in a remote environment requiring clear and effective communication.

What You'll Do

Design and connect our Integrations API with new service providers and products.
Architect and implement robust API interfaces.
Thoroughly document API endpoints, including expected behavior and integration processes.
Proactively monitor integrations to ensure optimized performance and swiftly address any operational issues.
Provide ongoing technical support to meet our stakeholders' needs.
Enhance the functionality of existing integrations to elevate customer experience (CX).
Lead projects from conception through to execution, including ideation, technical design, development, automated testing, release, and production operations.
Engage actively in team rituals such as planning sessions, demos, and technical deep-dive discussions.

Ideal, But Not Required

Experience with AWS services and serverless architectures.
Familiarity with FastAPI.
DynamoDB/Postgres/Pydantic/AWS Lambda/SQLAlchemy.
Knowledge of React and TypeScript.

Required Experience

Experience in Python development.
Proficient in RESTful API development and management.

Our Offer

Work with colleagues that lift you up, challenge you, celebrate you and help you grow. We come from many different backgrounds, but what we have in common is the desire to operate at the very top of our fields. If you are similarly capable, caring, and driven, you'll find yourself at home here.
Make an impact and meaningfully shape an early-stage company.
Experience a truly flat hierarchy and communicate directly with founding team members. Having an opinion and voicing your ideas is not only welcome but encouraged, especially when they challenge the status quo.
Learn from experienced mentors and achieve tremendous personal and professional growth. Get to know and leverage our network of leading tech investors and advisors around the globe.
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.
Use the equipment of your choice including meaningful home office set-up.

Our Stance

We're eager to meet talented and driven candidates regardless of whether they tick all the boxes. We're 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. We won't inquire about how you identify or if you've experienced discrimination, but if you want to tell your story, we are all ears.

Salary

Based on seniority.

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About us

Taktile is building the world's leading software platform for running critical and highly-automated decisions. Our customers use our product to catch fraudsters, prevent money laundering, and expand access to credit for small businesses, among many other use cases. Taktile is already making millions of such decisions across the globe every day.

Taktile is based in Berlin, London and New York City. It was founded by machine learning and data science veterans with extensive experience building and running production ML in financial services. Our team consists of engineers, entrepreneurs, and researchers with a diverse set of backgrounds. Some of us attended top universities such as Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford and some of us have no degree at all. We have accumulated extensive work experience at leading tech companies, startups, and the enterprise software sphere.

Our backers include Y Combinator, Index Ventures, and stellar angels such as the founders of Looker, GitHub, Mulesoft, Datadog and UiPath.

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