Back-End Engineer - Team Agents

About the role

Taktile is building a platform for creating, publishing, and executing AI-powered agents that help teams automate complex workflows in financial services. We are hiring a Back-End Engineer to help build and ship production features across this stack.

What you'll do

• Build and ship backend features for Taktile's AI agent platform in Python (FastAPI), deployed on AWS serverless infrastructure.
• Own your work end-to-end: collaborate on scope, implement, test, release, and iterate based on real usage and customer feedback.
• Improve how agents run, how they connect to external tools, and how they behave when something goes wrong.
• Use leading-edge AI tools (e.g. Claude) on a daily basis to move faster, improve quality, and build AI-native capabilities where it makes sense.
• Review pull requests with depth, improve test coverage and CI/CD, and raise the bar on reliability and engineering excellence.
• 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 experienced team members, contributing to a foundational layer of the product, and joining cross-team learning groups.
• For career growth at Taktile, this role will involve daytime ops duty and at some point joining an on-call rotation, so you need to have passion for owning systems end to end and grow your DevSecOps skills as well.

What you'll need

• Strong engineering fundamentals with a passion for simplicity and precision.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken, is essential as we operate in a remote environment requiring clear and effective communication. Strong English skills are also crucial to efficiently interacting with AI.
• Prior industry experience with Python back-end development (this is not an entry-level position).
• Experience building and operating RESTful APIs and working with databases.
• Experience integrating into AWS or similar cloud providers.

Nice to have

• FastAPI and Pydantic experience.
• DynamoDB or Postgres, SQLAlchemy.
• Exposure to LLM application development, agent frameworks, or building developer tools.
• Prior ops or on-call experience.
• Experience with distributed systems, async task processing, or observability tooling (tracing, metrics, logging).

What they 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.
• Top-of-market equity and cash compensation package.
• Self-development budget for conferences, books or classes.
• New Apple MacBook Pro and meaningful home office set-up.