Back-End Engineer - Team Agents

About the role

We are hiring a Back-End Engineer to help build and ship production features across our AI agent platform stack. You'll work alongside experienced engineers, contribute to real product impact from day one, and grow your skills in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment.

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.
• 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.
• 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.