Engineering Lead

Your Impact

As an essential member of the engineering team, you will shape our design decisions and address some of the most difficult technical challenges to build a cutting-edge software. This is a high impact role where you will be part of an amazing team, shape the product, and help us to deliver value to our customers.

Your Tasks

• Team Development: Assemble, guide, and cultivate a high-performing engineering team, fostering an environment that prioritizes engineering excellence and a customer-first approach.

• Technical Leadership: Provide strategic direction in system architecture development, ensuring the delivery of scalable, maintainable, secure, and performing products.

• A Builder at Heart: Spearhead architectural decisions and feature developments, and pick a collection of tools and technologies to solve customer problems and overcome technical roadblocks.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product management, design, and engineering teams to create delightful user experiences, ensuring that engineering efforts are tightly aligned with company objectives.

• Performance and Quality Ownership: Maintain and spread an engineering culture of ambition, innovation, quality, and reliability and achieve high team engagement and satisfaction levels.

• Technical Excellence: Leverage your technical skills to build engineering excellence within your team that promotes and implements engineering best practices.

• Experimentation and Mentorship: Drive continuous enhancement of engineering processes and mentor team members to bolster their professional development and technical expertise.

• Become AI Native: Proactively identify opportunities to leverage AI to accelerate the work of your team, experiment with new approaches, and share successful workflows – contributing to Tacto's culture of high-velocity execution and innovation.

Your Profile

We’re looking for a talented engineering lead to help us build the vision of making supply chains digital, efficient, and sustainable for our customers. Now you may wonder what frameworks, tools, and languages you need to master.

• You have experience scaling and leading a technical organization, preferably SaaS (5+ members), while implementing best-in-class methodologies.

• You have a proven track record building teams that focus on impact, technical excellence and transparency.

• You have a solid full-stack understanding and deeper knowledge of specific components of a B2B SaaS solution.

• You have the ability to lead and make decisions to push forward.

• You are data-driven in your decision-making.

• You lead by example and are ready to roll up your sleeves to help your team in any way.

• You have excellent communication skills. Within the team and across the organization, you can communicate transparently and effectively.

Our Tech Stack

• Backend: Python, FastAPI, Kubernetes

• Frontend: TypeScript, Next.js, Tailwind, Radix UI, Shadcn

• DB: PostgreSQL, Clickhouse

• Other: GitHub, Linear

Who We Are

Tacto is an AI-driven procurement platform. Our mission is to strengthen Europe’s industrial “Mittelstand” by future proofing their supply chains. We streamline how companies buy, negotiate and manage procurement – we help them optimize their by far largest cost driver to stay competitive in the long-run. Trusted by hundreds of companies, Tacto transforms procurement into a strategic advantage.

Based in Munich, our team of builders, entrepreneurs and industry experts is creating technology that truly matters. We’re backed by some of the best investors in the world including Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Visionaries Club, UVC Partners as well as the founders of Personio, GetYourGuide, Helsing & Forto.

Why It Matters

The industrial Mittelstand – 90,000+ small and medium-sized enterprises – forms Europe’s economic backbone, driving 25% of Germany’s GDP and providing over 30% of jobs. These hidden champions manufacture the physical world around us, from the machines that build our cities to the medical devices that save lives.

Today, a world of growing uncertainty and disruption is threatening their position. To stay competitive, the Mittelstand must unlock new efficiencies – and procurement is their largest, strategic lever to do so.

At Tacto, we deliver tangible cost savings and strategic resilience at a time when it’s needed most. Our work extends beyond technology – it’s about protecting the foundation of Europe’s economy for generations to come.

What We Offer

• An environment where we enable you to have an impact and where we focus on outcomes, not time-tracking

• A vibrant in-office culture in a beautiful office (at least 3 days/week)

• 26 + 4 vacation days per year (4 fixed “company rest days”)

• Wellpass membership and access to Jobrad, for your health

• Additional voluntary pension contribution and KITA subsidy, for you and your family’s future

• Competitive salary & meaningful equity stake, so you are invested in our success

Tacto is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability or gender identity. Please do not submit personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, data concerning your health, or data concerning your sexual orientation.