Product Engineer / Builder

WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS Manufacturing is Europe's backbone, and it's under pressure. Over 50% of manufacturing cost is decided in procurement, yet the function still runs on Excel. Tacto is building the intelligence layer that connects bits (engineering, digital) and atoms (manufacturing, physical) - the missing piece to bring AI into the real economy. 300+ industrial companies already run on Tacto. Backed by Sequoia and Index. Category leader in DACH. Just getting started. You'd join the team that owns Tacto's analytics product - the engine that turns messy procurement data into clear "here's where you can save" opportunities. On top of ClickHouse, we ingest spend and supplier data, run AI agents over it, enrich with 20,000+ external indices, and surface ready-made savings to procurement teams. WHAT YOU'LL DO Ship product end-to-end. Build the analytics engine that finds saving potential across millions of rows. Turn AI advances into real production features - anomaly detection, opportunity scoring, agentic workflows. Build customer-facing flows in React/Next.js that feel more like a great CRM than a spreadsheet. Identify the right problem, align, and drive it to revenue. Don't wait for a PRD. WHAT WE MEAN BY BUILDER Because of AI, we only need Builders. No specialized roles. A Builder owns ambiguity end-to-end - not just customer problems, but business problems. You take effective agency, make the case, de-risk, and make the value real. You spread what works instead of hoarding it. We don't care about code quality for its own sake. We care about outcomes. The loop of idea → reality is what makes this fun, and AI just made that loop 10x shorter. There's no room here for "my job is to solve interesting technical problems." That mindset is obsolete. HOW WE BUILD - THE TACTO ENGINEER Builder is the what. The Tacto Engineer is the how - our engineering practice and the bar we hold each other to. Wear the customer's shoes. Ship fast, finish fully. Sweat the details. Get 1% better every week. No lone wolves. Use AI as leverage, not a crutch. Read the full version: en.tacto.ai/engineering http://en.tacto.ai/engineering. If that reads like the way you already work, you'll fit here. WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR Strong engineers or every seniority level, deeply AI-immersed, who care about the output more than the craft. - Shipped real production software in a modern product team (B2B SaaS, analytics, or data-heavy products a plus). - Live in AI tools daily. Cursor, Claude, Codex, agents - whatever ships fastest. You've already built something AI-leveraged that wouldn't have existed otherwise. - Depth in modern Python (FastAPI, async, SQL) or TypeScript/React/Next.js - and motivated to go up and down the stack. - Comfortable with data and SQL. ClickHouse a plus. - Think in domains, not endpoints. Suppliers, materials, contracts, indices. - Have built AI-backed product features, or are obsessively learning to. STACK Python, FastAPI, Postgres, ClickHouse on the backend. React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, Storybook on the frontend. GitHub, Linear, Figma. AI tooling: whatever ships fastest HOW WE WORK Munich, in-office 4 days/week. 100+ people in the office daily. Outcomes over time-tracking. High trust, real feedback. 26 + 4 vacation days, Wellpass, JobRad, voluntary pension, Kita subsidy. Competitive salary and meaningful equity. OUR BACKGROUND Tacto is building the intelligence layer that connects AI to the physical world of manufacturing, starting with procurement. AI is transforming every industry, but it stops at the factory gate. The knowledge that holds manufacturing together - part costs, suppliers, materials - is scattered across systems and people. Over 50% of a product's cost originates from suppliers, making procurement the single largest cost lever in manufacturing and the missing connection between the digital and the physical world. Yet it still runs on Excel and legacy systems. We're changing that with our Procurement Intelligence