Product Engineer / Builder

Why this role exists

Manufacturing is Europe’s backbone, and it’s under pressure. More than half of manufacturing cost is decided in procurement, yet the function still runs on Excel.

Tacto is building the intelligence layer between bits and atoms, connecting the digital world of engineering with the physical world of manufacturing. It’s how AI gets into the real economy.

More than 300 industrial companies already run on Tacto. We’re the category leader in DACH, backed by Sequoia and Index, and we’re just getting started.

What you'll do

Find the problems worth solving, then solve them end to end. Talk to customers, build across the whole stack, and ship to production. Turn what AI can do today into features that procurement and engineering teams use every day. You’re done when it drives revenue, not when it’s merged. Don’t wait for a PRD.

What we mean by Builder

Because of AI, we only hire Builders. No specialized roles.

A Builder takes a messy, unclear problem and owns it from start to finish. That goes for business problems, not just customer problems. You decide what’s worth doing, make the case for it, test the risky parts early, and see it through until it pays off. When something works, you share it so everyone gets better.

We care about outcomes, not code quality for its own sake. What makes this fun is the loop from idea to reality, and AI just made that loop 10x shorter. There’s no room here for “my job is to solve interesting technical problems.”

How we build - The Tacto Engineer

Builder is the what. The Tacto Engineer is the how. It’s 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 at en.tacto.ai/engineering. If it reads like the way you already work, you’ll fit in here.

Who we're looking for

Hungry, creative, AI pilled engineers at every level of seniority who care more about the result than the craft.

• You have your own ideas and act on them, whether that’s something you started, a side project, or a feature nobody asked for that turned out to matter.

• You’ve shipped real production software in a modern product team. Experience with B2B SaaS or data products is a plus.

• You work in Cursor, Claude, Codex and agents every day, and you’ve built something with them that wouldn’t exist otherwise.

• You go deep in modern Python (FastAPI, async, SQL) or TypeScript/React/Next.js, and you’re happy to work anywhere in the stack.

• You’ve built AI features into a product, or you’re obsessively learning how.

• You want to be in a room full of people who are fired up about what they’re building.

Stack

Python, FastAPI, Postgres, and ClickHouse on the backend. React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, and Storybook on the frontend. GitHub, Linear, and Figma for everything around it. For AI, whatever ships fastest.

How we work

We’re in our Munich office four days a week, with 100+ people building together every day. We measure outcomes, not hours. Trust is high and feedback is direct.
Competitive salary and meaningful equity. 26 + 4 vacation days, Wellpass fitness membership, JobRad bike leasing, company pension plan, and a childcare (Kita) subsidy.

• Money: Competitive salary & equity in the company with real upside, so you are invested in our success