Backend Engineer - Team Atlas

About the role

Banks and fintechs use Taktile to automate critical decisions - like credit and risk - in real time. In Team Atlas you'll focus on building the data infrastructure that powers our feature computation platform. You'll own critical systems end-to-end on a small team where your decisions shape the product.

What you'll do

• Build and operate backend services in Python on AWS — Lambda functions, DynamoDB, Aurora, and event-driven pipelines that handle real production traffic.
• Tackle hard backend problems — latency, reliability, and scale are everyday concerns.
• Own your systems end-to-end: from architecture and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and incident response.
• Make key architectural decisions — you'll have real authority over how things are built, not just what gets built.
• Raise the bar for the team through code reviews, mentoring, and improving our development tooling and processes.
• Work directly with Product and Design to shape what we build next.

What you'll need

• At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of leading complex projects in a senior capacity (2+ years).
• Deep expertise in Python and building backend systems on cloud platforms (AWS).
• Strong system design skills — you're comfortable making architectural trade-offs and defending them.
• Depth in at least one of these areas: data pipelines and storage, event-driven architectures, caching and performance, or serverless systems.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align technical and non-technical stakeholders on a shared vision.

Nice to have

• Apache Iceberg, AWS Athena, AWS Glue, or Apache Spark
• Streaming / real-time data pipelines (Kinesis)
• Multi-level caching strategies (Redis, DynamoDB, in-memory)
• Serverless at scale (Lambda, SAM, CloudFormation)

What they offer

• Top-of-market equity and cash compensation package
• Self-development budget for conferences, books, and classes
• Apple MacBook Pro and meaningful home office set-up
• Flat hierarchy with direct access to founding team members
• Mentorship and professional growth opportunities