Senior Backend Engineer - Team Decide

Taktile is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join its engineering teams. The role involves building and operating backend services in Python on AWS, leveraging agentic AI tools, and making key architectural decisions. The team works on critical systems end-to-end and owns the product from architecture to deployment. The ideal candidate has at least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, deep expertise in Python and cloud platforms, and strong system design skills. The company offers a top-of-market equity and cash compensation package, a self-development budget, and a new Apple MacBook Pro.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience
• Deep expertise in Python and building backend systems on cloud platforms
• Strong system design skills
• Depth in at least one of the following areas: data pipelines and storage, event-driven architectures, caching and performance, or serverless systems

Benefits

• Top-of-market equity and cash compensation package
• Self-development budget
• New Apple MacBook Pro
• Meaningful home office set-up