Engineering Manager

About the role

Taktile is a high-growth, post product-market-fit start-up, on a fast trajectory to becoming market leader in the field of automated decisioning. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to grow one of our core product teams into a high performing product area. In this role, you’ll be responsible for the delivery, growth, and well-being of a team of high-performing engineers. You’ll balance deep involvement in technical execution with a strong focus on coaching, team development, and strategic alignment. If you’re passionate about building exceptional products, developing people, and driving outcomes in a fast-paced environment, this role is for you.

What You'll Do

• Own delivery, operations, and people growth for a cross-functional team working on a core area of the Taktile platform.

• Coach and mentor engineers to grow their skills, expand their impact, and build meaningful careers.

• Translate company priorities into team outcomes. Collaborate with Product to build an ambitious and achievable roadmap for the team. Execute, track and communicate progress.

• Foster strong collaboration within the team and across functions. Create an environment of psychological safety and high performance.

• Drive engineering excellence through a culture of ownership, healthy challenge, and continuous improvement.

• Hire, onboard, and manage performance for your team. Build a diverse, high-performing group aligned with our values.

• Build Operational and Engineering Excellence for your team through industry leading best practices, top notch instrumentation and well-oiled incident response procedures.

• Engage in strategic discussions and ensure the team is solving the right problems—not just shipping features.

Requirements

• Taktile is a hybrid company with options to work from either our Berlin HQ in Germany or the Iasi Hub in Romania. Taktile will not cover relocation services for this role.

• Strong proficiency in English (C2), both written and spoken, is essential as we operate in a remote environment requiring clear and effective communication.

• 5+ years prior experience managing software engineers with a focus on both delivery and career growth.

• Experience working in high-growth, product-led SaaS startups or scale-ups.

• Strong technical background in backend or platform engineering, ideally with experience in Python, AWS, or similar stacks.

• Strong ownership of operations, security and compliance and a proven ability to drive consensus around prioritizing team product roadmap with Engineering initiatives.

• Proven track record of building healthy, motivated teams that deliver consistently.

Ideal, But Not Required

• 5+ years of managing multiple engineering teams with high performance.

• FinTech SaaS experience.

• Track record of delivering results in a highly regulated environment (PCI-DSS and/or HIPAA compliant).

Our Offer

• Work with colleagues that lift you up, challenge you, celebrate you and help you grow. We come from many different backgrounds, but what we have in common is the desire to operate at the very top of our fields. If you are similarly capable, caring, and driven, you'll find yourself at home here.

• Experience a truly flat hierarchy and communicate directly with founding team members. Having an opinion and voicing your ideas is not only welcome but encouraged, especially when they challenge the status quo.

• Learn from experienced mentors and achieve tremendous personal and professional growth. Get to know and leverage our network of leading tech investors and advisors around the globe.

• Receive a top-of-market equity and cash compensation package.

• Get access to a self-development budget you can use to e.g. attend conferences, buy books or take classes.

• Receive a new Apple MacBook Pro, as well as meaningful home office set-up.

Our Stance

• We're eager to meet talented and driven candidates regardless of whether they tick all the boxes. We're looking for someone who will add to our culture, not just fit within it. We strongly encourage individuals from groups traditionally underestimated and underrepresented in tech to apply.

• We seek to actively recognize and combat racism, sexism, ableism and ageism. We embrace and support all gender identities and expressions, and celebrate love in its many forms. We won't inquire about how you identify or if you've experienced discrimination, but if you want to tell your story, we are all ears.

About us

Taktile is building the world's leading software platform for running critical and highly-automated decisions. Our customers use our product to catch fraudsters, prevent money laundering, and expand access to credit for small businesses, among many other use cases. Taktile is already making millions of such decisions across the globe every day.

Taktile is based in Berlin, London and New York City. It was founded by machine learning and data science veterans with extensive experience building and running production ML in financial services. Our team consists of engineers, entrepreneurs, and researchers with a diverse set of backgrounds. Some of us attended top universities such as Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford and some of us have no degree at all. We have accumulated extensive work experience at leading tech companies, startups, and the enterprise software sphere.

Our backers include Y Combinator, Index Ventures, and stellar angels such as the founders of Looker, GitHub, Mulesoft, Datadog and UiPath.