(Senior) Backend Engineer (m/f/d)

Your mission How you can contributeAs 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 responsibilities

• 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 organization

Your profile Let's talk about you!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

We know that perfect candidates don’t exist and thus don't have specific "minimum qualifications". We’d love to learn more about you and care about your motivation and drive to shape the industrial future with us. Tacto Behind the Scenes (Video) Apply for this job About us What we doWe are Tacto, a Munich-based startup with a mission to create digital, efficient, and sustainable supply chains. The European economic backbone, 90 thousand mid-sized industrial companies known as the ‘Mittelstand’, faces significant threats from supply chain disruptions and bureaucracy. Tacto is the answer: A supply chain operating system designed for mid-sized industrial organizations. Our AI-based software streamlines all procurement workflows, effortlessly ensures compliant and sustainable supply chains, and enables efficient material sourcing with optimal conditions.Why it matters:

• Powering the industry that builds the world: We create a new wave of innovation by lifting Europe’s industrial backbone with tens of millions of workers to the digital era
• Enabling powerful business collaboration: We enable powerful collaboration among supplier networks as the basis for future economic growth
• Saving resources in supply chains: We optimize the 50-80% of costs and emissions of physical products originating from suppliers to enhance sustainable growth

Why you should consider joining:

1. Timing: Our product manages hundreds of millions of € of material to manufacture physical products from bread cutters to medical technology. The Industrial Mittelstand trusts us and we are ready to scale! Join us to shape the future of our organization & product!
2. Top investors believe in us: We are supported 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 to show them they invested wisely!
3. Team: We are an interdisciplinary and international team that is highly motivated to succeed, but loves to laugh. Join us to grow personally as well as professionally, accelerated by our supportive culture that includes everyone.
4. Impact: We are reshaping industrial procurement, which is the biggest value driver of manufacturing companies - there is no physical product in the world without procurement involved. Join us to future-proof the most important economic sector in Germany with over 10 million employees.

Why us: Apart from the people, our culture, and mission, we offer you a workplace with above-average compensation and a high level of personal responsibility. It's important for us to create an environment in which you can grow professionally and personally.

• Your vacation: 26 paid vacation days per year + christmas & silvester.
• Your office: We embrace an office culture, and all our employees enjoy coming to our beautiful office at Königsplatz in Munich. However, you also have the flexibility to work remotely at times. Our guideline is 3-4 days in the office and 1-2 days working from home.
• Your setup: Choose your preferred equipment and work environment – whether it's Mac, Windows, or Linux. We want you to feel comfortable.
• Your team: We are growing and have fun together with team lunches, coffee dates, chess games, bouldering sessions, and more – everything is optional, no pressure.
• Your safe space: We believe that a diverse workplace where different voices are heard makes us stronger.
• Your health: We provide company health insurance (if you are new to the German work environment) and offer you a membership in the Urban Sports Club or Wellpass.