Lead Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

About The Role Taktile empowers financial institutions to transform into truly AI-native organizations. We’re growing rapidly with enterprise customers across banks and insurance companies, and we’re looking for a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer in our NYC headquarters. If you're passionate about tech and AI, stay up to date on the latest AI developments, and have extensive experience with Python, SQL, REST APIs, you'll thrive here. What You'll Do as Lead Forward Deployed Engineer - Lead complex AI-driven Taktile deployments in production. You own technical delivery across multiple deployments, from scoping high-impact Agentic AI use cases 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 deploying production-grade Generative 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. - You actively coach and mentor junior Forward Deployed Engineers, supporting their development and success. About You - You bring 6+ 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 write and review production-grade Python and SQL, and have strong command of REST API design and integrations. - 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're collaborative, curious, and low-ego- you work well across product, engineering, and GTM teams, and you bring a genuine desire to understand customers' businesses. - You are open to a hybrid work model and can work from our NYC office at least three days per week. Ideal Qualifications (but not required) - You have 6+ 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 within financial services - 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). 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. About Us Taktile enables financial institutions to transform into AI-native organizations that are increasingly powered by autonomous agents. With our modular Agentic Decision Platform, customers combine AI agents, rules, relevant context, and human oversight to safely automate and optimize their decisions—approving more customers, reimbursing claims instantly, stopping fraud before it spreads, and financing every business worth funding. Founded in 2020, Taktile powers millions of decisions daily for institutions including Mercury, Monzo, Faire, and Pleo. With offices in New York, Berlin, London, São Paulo, and Iași, the company has raised $184M from Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Index Ventures, Tiger Global, Balderton Capital, and Y Combinator. Learn more at taktile.com https://taktile.com. About Your Employment. Taktile operates through regional entities worldwide. Depending on the location of this role, your employment or engagement will be with Taktile LLC (US), Taktile GmbH (Germany), Taktile Ltd (UK), or Taktile SRL (Romania). The applicable entity will be confirmed during the offer process. Your Privacy. Taktile ("we" or "us") is the controller of the personal data you provide during this application process. We collect and process your name, contact details, resume/CV, work history, education, and any other information you submit or that we obtain from publicly available sources or references. How we use your data: We process your personal data to evaluate your candidacy, communicate with you about the recruitment process, comply with legal obligations (such as right-to-work verification), and, with your consent, to consider you for future opportunities. Legal basis (EU/UK applicants): We rely on (i) pre-contractual steps at your request (GDPR/UK GDPR Art. 6(1)(b)), (ii) legal obligations (Art. 6(1)(c)), and (iii) our legitimate interest in evaluating candidates (Art. 6(1)(f)). Retention: If your application is unsuccessful, we retain your data for 12 months after the recruitment process concludes, unless you consent to longer retention. Successful candidates' data becomes part of their employment records. Your rights: Depending on your location, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict the processing of your personal data, to data portability, and to withdraw consent. California residents have additional rights under the CCPA, including the right to know, delete, and correct personal information. Automated decision-making: We use automated tools to assist in screening applications. No hiring decision is made solely by automated means without human review. International transfers: Your data may be transferred to and processed in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, or Romania. Where required, transfers are protected by Standard Contractual Clauses or other approved mechanisms. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that you have read and understood Taktile's Applicant Privacy Policy https://taktile.com/legal/applicant-privacy-policy. To exercise your rights or ask questions, contact privacy@taktile.com.