Back-End Engineer - Team Agents

Requirements

• About the role Taktile is building a platform for creating, publishing, and executing AI-powered agents that help teams automate complex workflows in financial services.
• 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.
• Technical stack - Backend: Python (FastAPI, Pydantic) - Data: DynamoDB, Postgres - Cloud: AWS serverless (Lambda, API Gateway) - AI: LLM orchestration, tool-use frameworks, streaming execution - Frontend: React, TypeScript (you will collaborate closely, but this is not a front-end role)
• Requirements - 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.
• Strong English skills are also crucial to efficiently interacting with AI. - 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.
• Ideally, but not required - 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).
• About us Taktile helps financial institutions make smarter, safer decisions with the power of AI.
• By combining AI with a rich ecosystem of financial data, Taktile enables companies to adapt their decision-making in real time as markets, customer behavior, and risks evolve.
• Our mission is to build the world's leading platform for automated decision-making in financial services, setting the standard for how AI is applied responsibly and effectively in this industry.
• We were founded by machine learning and data science experts with deep experience in financial services.