The Senior Backend Engineer will develop backend services in Python on AWS, tackle performance challenges, and make key architectural decisions while mentoring team members and collaborating with product and design.

Build and scale internal AI tools and agents that integrate the SaaS stack into company workflows. Identify high-leverage automation opportunities, design and ship production-grade Python systems, ensure governance and security, drive adoption through training, and iterate on AI architecture and tooling.

Build and operate Taktile's IAM and permissions platform end-to-end: design RBAC/ReBAC models, implement authN/authZ (SSO/OAuth/OIDC), ensure multi-tenant isolation and high-performance fine-grained permission checks, create audit trails, and work across React/TypeScript front-end and Python (FastAPI) backend on AWS serverless.