Your Impact:
As a Senior Front End Engineer at Tacto, you will shape our design decisions and address difficult technical challenges to build a scalable, intuitive cutting-edge software solution our customers not only rely on, but enjoying using every day.
In your first few months, you will:
Learn our codebase thoroughly, making small wins optimizing for performance, consistency, and reliability
Pair with other members of the team on tickets to deepen your understanding of our system
Develop scalable and reusable key components of our front-end in close collaboration with our Product team
Participate in code reviews to understand our Engineering processes and help instill best practices
Once fully onboard, you will:
Consistently deliver clean, maintainable code with sensible testing (code you would be happy to take over from a colleague)
Take technical ownership by making pragmatic and efficient decisions about frameworks, tools, data models, design aspects, and scalability to balance speed and quality
Design and iterate prototypes to do efficient user testing, working closely with Product Designers
Make system architecture decisions and design systems that bring a consumer-like experience to B2B software
Assess implementation effort and complexity for future roadmap planning
Review code, leave the codebase better than you found it, and help everyone in the team to become better
Proactively communicate, document, and share your approach, progress, results, and challenges
Spread an engineering culture of quality, innovation, and ambition across the organisation
Your Profile:
We believe that problem-solving, creativity, and drive are more important in an Engineer than hiring strictly for a skills match. However, the following references will give a guideline of what experiences we think might be helpful.
You have developed a RESTful API with frameworks and tools such as FastAPI, Pydantic, Pytest, Celery, and more
You are familiar with frontend libraries and frameworks such as Next, React, Zustand, React Hook Form, and more
You used component libraries such as Material UI and extended your app with own components
You are familiar with object-oriented programming languages and domain driven design
You know your way around in HTML, CSS and JavaScript and have experience with TypeScript in Frontend Engineering
You know how to deploy applications to cloud services such as Azure, GCP or AWS
You are open to collaborate and learn together with other developers for truly interdisciplinary work
🏭 What we do
We are Tacto, a Munich-based startup with a mission to build digital, efficient, and sustainable supply chains. The European economic backbone, 90 thousand mid-sized industrial companies known as the ‘Mittelstand’, faces significant threats from supply chain disruptions and bureaucracy. Tacto is the answer: An operating system for future-proof supply chains designed for mid-sized industrial organizations. Our AI-based software streamlines all procurement workflows, effortlessly ensures compliant and sustainable supply chains, and enables efficient material sourcing with optimal conditions.
⭐ Why it matters
Mid-cap industrials are the backbone of our economy manufacturing every physical good that surrounds us - from board games to medical ventilators to tunnel drilling machines. Supply chain disruptions and bureaucracy threaten the foundation of their business. Our mission is to support them by:
🏭 Powering the industry that builds the world: We lift Europe’s economic backbone to the next era by simplifying the ever-increasing complexity in industrial supply chains
👩🏼🏭 Enabling supplier collaboration: We enable powerful collaboration among supplier networks with over €3tn in procurement volume to keep the production running
🌳 Saving resources in supply chains: We optimise the 50-80% of costs and emissions of physical products originating from suppliers to enhance sustainable growth
🚀 Why you should join us
Timing: Our product manages hundreds of millions of euros of material to manufacture physical products from bread slicers to medical devices. The industrial middle class trusts us and we are ready to grow! Shape the future of our company and our product with us!
Top investors believe in us: We are backed by first-class investors such as Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Visionaries Club, UVC Partners as well as the founders of Personio, GetYourGuide, Helsing & Forto. Join us and show them that they made a good decision!
The team: We are an interdisciplinary and international team that is highly ambitious to scale Tacto but also likes to have fun. Work with us to develop both personally and professionally!
Impact: We are reshaping industrial procurement, which is the biggest value driver in the industry. There is no physical product in the world in which procurement is not significantly involved. Join us in shaping the future of the most important economic sector in Germany with over 10 million employees.
🤝 What we offer
Apart from the people, our culture and mission, we offer you a job with above-average pay and a lot of personal responsibility. It is important for us to create an environment in which you can grow professionally and personally:
Your holiday: 28 + 2 paid days of vacation per year
Your office: We live an office culture and all our employees like to come to our beautiful office in the Sandstraße in Munich, but you can also work from home at times (our guideline is 3-4 days office & 1-2 days home office)
Your setup: Choose your favorite equipment and working environment. Whether Mac/Windows/Linux suits you, we want you to feel comfortable.
Your team: We grow and have fun together at team lunches, coffee dates, chess games, hiking trips, and a lot more
Your safe space: We are convinced that a workplace where different and diverse perspectives and ideas are brought in is very valuable
Your health: We have company health insurance, offer you an EGYM Wellpass membership & Jobrad
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.
