Taktile · 2 months ago
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$175K/yr - $240K/yr
3+ years expTaktile is a high-growth start-up focused on automated decisioning in financial services. They are seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to lead complex deployments, support customers in maximizing the platform's impact, and collaborate with product management to influence product development.
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Responsibilities
Lead complex Taktile deployments in production. You own technical delivery across multiple deployments from scoping to stable production
Apply your technical expertise, problem-solving skills and creativity to help organizations address real-world challenges. Your day could include designing solution architectures, developing decision logic and AI agents, or aligning with key customer stakeholders—all while ensuring an outstanding experience and rapid time to value for Taktile’s customers
You effectively scope work, sequence delivery, and proactively remove blockers, while making thoughtful trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality to ensure successful and timely project delivery
Partner with Taktile’s product management team to turn your understanding of customer needs into actionable product insights, directly influencing the evolution of Taktile’s product roadmap
Develop reusable resources, best practices, and tools to share your expertise and help scale the forward deployed engineering function across the organization
Qualification
Required
You bring 3-5 years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work
You have strong technical background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science
You can write and review production-grade code using Python and SQL
You possess a strong understanding of REST APIs
You excel at breaking down complex problems and making quick, well-informed decisions even under pressure
You build strong relationships with both technical and business stakeholders at all levels, driven by curiosity and a customer-centric mindset that helps you understand their needs and solve their challenges
You are creative and proactive, always seeking new ways to deliver value and stand out with customers
You are collaborative and work well with your peers in product teams, engineers and GTM team
You are humble and have a growth mindset, with a willingness to learn new skills and methodologies and bring best practices into our business
You have excellent written and spoken English
You are open to a hybrid work model and can work from our NYC office at least three days per week
Preferred
You have 3-5 years of experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Solution Engineer, Implementation Specialist or an equivalent position within a B2B SaaS company
You have experience in building AI applications
You have experience in applying and optimizing statistical and machine learning models to solve business problems
You have experience with at least one of the major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
You are fluent in Spanish and/or Portuguese
Benefits
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.
Use the equipment of your choice including meaningful home office set-up.
Company
Taktile
Taktile is a software platform that helps users create automated risk management decisions.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$78.7MKey Investors
Balderton CapitalIndex Ventures
2025-02-27Series B· $54M
2024-07-10Series A
2022-11-22Series A· $20M
Leadership Team
Maik Taro Wehmeyer
Co-Founder & CEO
Dr. Maximilian Eber
Co-founder & CTO
Recent News
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