Engineering Lead

Your impact

As an essential member of the engineering team, you will shape our design decisions and address some of the most difficult technical challenges to build a cutting-edge software. This is a high impact role where you will be part of an amazing team, shape the product, and help us to deliver value to our customers.

Your tasks

• Team Development: Assemble, guide, and cultivate a high-performing engineering team, fostering an environment that prioritizes engineering excellence and a customer-first approach.

• Technical Leadership: Provide strategic direction in system architecture development, ensuring the delivery of scalable, maintainable, secure, and performant products.

• A Builder at Heart: Spearhead architectural decisions and feature developments and pick a collection of tools and technologies to solve customer problems and overcome technical roadblocks.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product management, design, and engineering teams to create delightful user experiences, ensuring that engineering efforts are tightly aligned with company objectives.

• Performance and Quality Ownership: Maintain and spread an engineering culture of ambition, innovation, quality, and reliability and achieve high team engagement and satisfaction levels.

• Technical Excellence: Leverage your technical skills to build engineering excellence within your team that promotes and implements engineering best practices.

• Experimentation and Mentorship: Drive continuous enhancement of engineering processes and mentor team members to bolster their professional development and technical expertise.

Your profile

We’re looking for a talented engineering lead to help us build the vision of making supply chains digital, efficient, and sustainable for our customers. Now you may wonder what frameworks, tools, and languages you need to master. We believe that problem solving, creativity, and drive are more important than tools that can be picked up. The following references will give a guideline of what experiences we think might be helpful:

• You have experience scaling and leading a technical organization, preferably SaaS (5+ members), while implementing best-in-class methodologies.

• You have a proven track record building teams that focus on impact, technical excellence and transparency.

• You have a solid full-stack understanding and deeper knowledge of specific components of a B2B SaaS solution

• You have the ability to lead and make decisions to push forward.

• You are data-driven in your decision-making.

• You lead by example and are ready to roll up your sleeves to help your team in any way.

• You have excellent communication skills. Within the team and across the organization you can communicate transparently and effectively.

Our Tech Stack

• Backend: Python, FastAPI, SQL Alchemy, Alembic, Pydantic, Pytest, …

• Frontend: TypeScript, NextJS, Zustand, Material UI, React Hook Form, …

• DB: PostgreSQL

• Data: Python, Prefect, Pandas, …

• Cloud: Azure

• Other: GitHub, GitHub Actions, Dependabot, Pre-commit, Mozilla SOPS, …

It is not expected to be completely familiar with each and every aspect of our tech stack.
Other technologies that we enjoy discussing and encourage in the team:

• Backend: Golang, Rust

• Frontend: Vue / Nuxt, Svelte / Svelte Kit, Tailwind, Bun, tRPC, …

• Linux: Nix, Arch, Ubuntu, i3, …

• Other: LLMs, LMMs, NeoVim Configs, …

ABOUT US

What we do

We are Tacto, a Munich-based start-up with the mission of creating future-proof supply chains in the industrial SME sector: digital, efficient & sustainable. With our intelligent operating system for supplier management, we strengthen the backbone of the European economy: the industrial SME sector. We help our customers to manage their suppliers, optimise purchasing processes and ensure an overall sustainable supply chain. We are convinced that, together with the hidden champions of today, we must change the industrial world digitally and sustainably - that is what we are working on at Tacto.

Why this is important

• We are lifting the backbone of the European economy, the industrial SME sector, with tens of millions of employees, into the digital age.

• We support smooth collaboration across company boundaries in supplier networks as the basis for future growth.

• We optimise the 50-70% of costs and emissions of a physical product that are attributable to suppliers in order to save resources along the supply chain.

Why you should join us

1. Timing: Our product manages hundreds of millions of euros of material to manufacture physical products from bread slicers to medical devices. The industrial middle class trusts us and we are ready to grow! Shape the future of our company and our product with us!

2. Top investors believe in us: We are backed by first-class investors such as Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Visionaries Club, UVC Partners as well as the founders of Personio, GetYourGuide, Helsing & Forto. Join us and show them that they made a good decision!

3. The team: We are an interdisciplinary and international team that is highly motivated to scale Tacto but also likes to have fun. Work with us to develop both personally and professionally!

4. Impact: We are reshaping industrial procurement, which is the biggest value driver in the industry. There is no physical product in the world in which procurement is not significantly involved. Join us in shaping the future of the most important economic sector in Germany with over 10 million employees.

What we offer

Apart from the people, our culture and mission, we offer you a job with above-average pay and a lot of personal responsibility. It is important for us to create an environment in which you can grow professionally and personally:

• Your holiday: 28 paid days of vacation per year

• Your office: We live an office culture and all our employees like to come to our beautiful office in the Sandstraße in Munich, but you can also work from home at times (our guideline is 3+ days office & 2 days home office)

• Your setup: Choose your favourite equipment and working environment. Whether Mac/Windows/Linux suits you, we want you to feel comfortable.

• Your team: We grow and have fun together at team lunches, coffee dates, chess games, hiking trips and a lot more

• Your safe space: We are convinced that a workplace where different and diverse perspectives and ideas are brought in is very valuable

• Your health: We have company health insurance and offer you an EGYM Wellpass membership

Tacto is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability or gender identity. Please do not submit personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, data concerning your health, or data concerning your sexual orientation.