Solution Engineer (Post-Sales)

About us

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 New York City, London, and Berlin.

• 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 industry. We are looking to build on this success by growing our team across all seniority levels from software engineers, web developers, marketing and sales experts, and entrepreneurial business analysts.

That's where you come in.

As a Solution Engineer, you are core to our mission of transforming our customer's decisioning infrastructure to enable them to optimize and automate complex and mission critical business decisions. You will make sure our customers get onboarded on Taktile and get value from Taktile. 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’re passionate about state-of-the-art tech products, have hands-on experience with Python, SQL, and REST APIs, you’ll thrive in this role. Plus, if you enjoy working in a supportive team environment that empowers you to grow, we think you’ll love this job!

This role is also suitable for fresh graduates.

What you’ll do as Solution Engineer

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

• You are part of Taktile’s Value delivery team and onboard and work with various of our customers' teams 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 will work with product management to translate your knowledge of customer problems into product insights 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.

About You

• You are able to build build strong customer relationships with stakeholders across different levels of seniority and including both technical stakeholders in an organization (e.g. 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’ businesses and helping them solve challenges.

• 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 possess a solid understanding of REST APIs. Additionally, you have strong knowledge of Python and SQL.

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

• You are creative and proactive - you’re always looking for ways to stand out with customers.

• You have excellent written and spoken English.

Ideal Qualifications (but not required)

• You have an experience as a Solution Engineer, Implementation Specialist, Forward Deployed Engineer or an equivalent position within a B2B SaaS company (e.g. internships)

• You have experience in building AI applications.

• You have experience with at least one of the major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• You are fluent in Spanish and/or Portuguese

What we 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