Hybrid Backend Engineer – Agents Team

at Stena Center for Financial Technology

• Job title: Backend Engineer – Agents Team
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Django, Flask, Python
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Berlin, Germany

About the role

• Backend Engineer at Taktile developing features for AI agent platform. Collaborating on backend systems from implementation to shipping in a hybrid role based in Berlin.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship new product features for Taktile’s AI agent platform, from idea to production.
• Own backend work end-to-end: collaborate on scope, implement, test, release, and iterate based on real usage.
• Help make agent workflows reliable and easy to use by improving how agents run, how they connect to external tools, and how they behave when something goes wrong.
• Work closely with Product and Design, using insights from dogfooding and customer feedback to shape what we build next.
• Raise the quality bar by improving maintainability, clarity, and performance as the platform grows.

Requirements

• Hybrid role based in Berlin.
• Fluent English required.
• Strong engineering fundamentals: you can build clean APIs, debug production issues, optimize database queries, and know when to refactor vs. ship.
• Comfortable operating systems in production and participating in incident response as part of a team rotation.
• Production experience with Python: you've shipped APIs using FastAPI, Flask, or Django and understand async patterns, error handling, database transactions, and performance optimization.
• Proficient in REST API design and can create endpoints that scale and maintain over time.
• Prior industry experience with public cloud providers (preferably AWS).

Benefits

• 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.
• Learn from experienced mentors and achieve tremendous personal and professional growth.
• 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.