About The Role

Banks and fintechs use Taktile to automate critical decisions - like credit and risk - in real time. We're a startup in the automated decisioning space - and the backend is where the hard problems live.

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. You'll leverage agentic AI tools as part of your daily workflow.
• 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 a...