Solution Engineer

About The Role

Taktile exists to create value for organizations through smarter and safer decisions at scale. Our goal is to become the world's leading software provider for automated decision-making in the financial services industry and, to date, our software has been used by our customers to power over 1´000´000 critical business decisions every day.

• Taktile is based in Berlin, London and New York City.

• Taktile 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.

• Our team has accumulated extensive work experience at leading tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Meta, 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.

We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors and show great traction with scale-ups and large enterprises across the financial services and insurance industry. We are looking to build on this success by growing our sales team, professionalizing our go-to-market, and acquiring more customers.

That’s where you come in.

As a Solutions Engineer, you are core to our mission of transforming our customer's decisioning infrastructure - implementing AI-powered solutions that optimize and automate critical business decisions using state-of-the-art technology. You will work in partnership with Taktile's Sales Team and are making sure our customers get value from Taktile throughout their entire lifecycle. You are a trusted advisor to our customers and help them achieve their strategic goals and realize value by using Taktile in their decisioning tech stack.

If you are passionate about cutting-edge technology, stay up to date on the latest AI developments, and have a few years of hands-on experience with Python, APIs, and modern AI models in customer-facing environments - all while thriving in aIf you are passionate about state of the art technology, up to date on recent developments in AI, have gathered a few years of experience working with Python, APIs, state of the art AI models in a customer-facing context, and enjoy working a an awesome team that empowers you to grow, then we think you'll love this job!

About You

• You know how to build strong customer relationships with stakeholders across different levels of seniority and including both technical stakeholders in an organization (e.g. Principal Engineers, Data Scientists) as well as business stakeholders (e.g. Risk Managers, Credit Analysts).

• You are curious and customer-centric. You enjoy learning about our customers’ and prospects’ businesses and helping them solve challenges.

• You take responsibility for your deliverables and communicate clearly on progress, scope, and timelines. You are learning to balance priorities across multiple customers at different parts of their journey with Taktile.

• You are eager to learn and have a growth mindset, with a willingness to develop new skills and adopt best practices from across the team.

• You are collaborative and work well with your peers in Marketing, Sales, Product, Engineering and the Customer Success team.

• You are curious and proactive, asking thoughtful questions and suggesting improvements that help move customers forward.

• You thrive in a collaborative environment and seek feedback to improve your technical, product, and customer-facing skills.

• You have excellent written and spoken English.

What You'll Do

• You discover and translate customer's strategic priorities and problem statements into high impact use cases leveraging Taktile during the sales process and throughout the entire customer value journey including adoption, expansion and renewal.

• You perform the design and execution of proof-of-value projects that combine customer data, ML/AI models, and Taktile’s platform to demonstrate strategic ROI. You build technical prototypes and demos leveraging the Taktile platform that simulate production-grade integrations and workflows.

• You collaborate with partners and customers to design and build solutions in Taktile's Decisioning Platform.

• You implement proof-of-value projects and can communicate the value opportunity of a full implementation and the corresponding strategic roadmap to senior stakeholders up to C-level executives.

• You onboard and work with various of our customers' teams (domain experts, product, engineering, data science) to help them solve real-world problems. You understand people and technology, and are proficient and diligent in writing and testing Python code and committed to providing an excellent experience and fast time to value to Taktile’s customers.

• You share learnings and feedback from your work to help the product team better understand customer needs and use cases to shape Taktile's product roadmap.

• You will create re-usable collateral, best practices & tools to help scale your knowledge and expertise across the solution engineering function.

• You lead the discovery for new use cases and implement them on the platform to assess product-solution fit. You provide feedback to our product team and share results of your discovery with go to market functions.

Ideal, But Not Required

• Live for Customer Value: You have 2–3 years of experience in technical customer-facing roles such as Solution Engineering, Customer Success Engineering, or Technical Consulting, ideally in a B2B SaaS environment.

• Technical expertise: You have a general understanding of REST APIs (design, integration, authentication)

• You have experience building, tuning, or deploying ML models (e.g., scikit-learn, XGBoost, PyTorch, TensorFlow) in production settings

• Experience with AI use cases in financial services (e.g. fraud detection, credit scoring, underwriting) is a strong plus.

• You are comfortable explaining how a model works to both a technical stakeholder such as a CTO and domain experts such as Credit Risk Managers.

• You have acquired domain expertise in the financial services industry (banking, insurance, capital markets, payments, etc.).

• You are comfortable working with APIs and Python, and excited to deepen your skills in data, ML, and applied AI use cases in financial services.

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

• Make an impact and meaningfully shape an early-stage company

• 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.

• Use the equipment of your choice including 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.