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(Senior) Backend Engineer

Your impact

As an essential team member in engineering, 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

Make system architecture and tool decisions that serve as a solid base for a B2B SaaS application
Define and refine the domain model and business logic of a complex enterprise application
Assess implementation effort and complexity for future roadmap planning
Develop fundamental backend structures and APIs that serve multiple customers
Take technical ownership by making pragmatic and efficient decisions about frameworks, tools, data models, design aspects, and scalability to balance speed and quality
Write clean and maintainable code with sensible testing so that you would enjoy taking over from a colleague
Do 1:1s, review code, leave the codebase better than you found it, and help everyone in the team to become better
Proactively communicate, document, and share your approach, progress, results, and challenges
Spread an engineering culture of quality, innovation, and ambition across the organisation

Your profile

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. However, the following references will give a guideline of what experiences we think might be helpful:

You have developed a RESTful API with frameworks and tools such as FastAPI, Pydantic, Pytest, Celery, and more
You are familiar with object-oriented programming languages and domain driven design
You know how to deploy applications to cloud services such as Azure, GCP or AWS
You are capable of setting up a PostgreSQL database, work with ORMs, and write database migrations
You are open to collaborate and learn together with other developers (frontend and devops) for truly interdisciplinary work

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

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!
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!
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!
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.