Back-end Engineer - Team Decide

Taktile; London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing tech startup in London is searching for a Mid-Level Backend Engineer to enhance their decision execution engine and backend infrastructure. The ideal candidate has prior industry experience with Python, strong engineering fundamentals, and the ability to communicate effectively in English. The company offers a dynamic work environment, opportunities for professional growth, and competitive compensation, including a self-development budget.

Benefits

Top-of-market equity and cash compensation

Self-development budget

Apple MacBook Pro

Qualifications

• Prior industry experience with Python.
• Prior industry experience with public cloud providers (preferably AWS).
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken, is essential.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance execution engine and feature computation back-end.
• Engage in team rituals like daily syncs and planning sessions.
• Grow as an individual by contributing to foundational layers.

Skills

Fluency in English

Strong engineering fundamentals

Passion for simplicity and precision

Tools

AWS

Python

Postgres

DynamoDB

Apache Iceberg

Lambda

Job description

About The Role

Taktile is a high-growth, post product-market-fit start-up, on a fast trajectory to becoming market leader in the field of automated decisioning. We are looking for a Mid-Level Backend Engineer to join the Decide Team tasked with owning our core decision execution engine at Taktile, complex back-end systems involved in feature computation, as well as the overall decision flow canvas. If you’re ambitious, have strong engineering fundamentals, love doing the simple things exceptionally well, and enjoy propelling a small, dynamic team forward, this role is for you!

What You'll Do

• Primarily work on backend components written in Python, hosted on AWS: Build and enhance our execution engine, our feature computation back-end and other complex subsystems; review pull requests with depth, and optimize CI/CD pipelines.
• Engage actively in team rituals such as daily syncs, planning sessions, demos, and technical deep-dive discussions.
• Grow as an individual and accelerate your career by learning from our experienced team, contributing to a foundational layer of the product, and joining cross-team learning groups.
  
  

Requirements:

• Taktile is a hybrid company with options to work from either our Berlin HQ, or the London or Iasi hub. Taktile will not cover relocation services for this role.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken, is essential as we operate in a hybrid environment requiring clear and effective communication.
• Strong engineering fundamentals with a passion for simplicity and precision
  
  

Ideal, But Not Required

• Experience with database technologies (Postgres, DynamoDB, Apache Iceberg).
• Experience with serverless technologies (e.g. Lambda)
  
  

Required Experience

• Prior industry experience with Python.
• Prior industry experience with public cloud providers (preferably AWS).
  
  

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.
• 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.
• Receive a new Apple MacBook Pro, as well as 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.
  
  

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.