Senior Product Engineer (Python)

Talonic turns messy, real-world documents and data into reliable, structured products for non-technical users. This role exists because coordination, handoffs, and “someone else owns it” slows everything down. We want a builder who replaces that with ownership.

What you’ll own

• You’ll take one product surface end-to-end: problem definition → implementation → deployment → iteration with real users.
• Ship production Python daily (not prototypes)
• Build and evolve data-heavy backend systems and APIs (FastAPI)
• Make hard trade-offs and defend them (correctness vs speed, flexibility vs simplicity)
• Work directly with users to refine behavior (not just collect requirements)
• Reduce ambiguity by shipping working systems and improving them in the open

What we’re looking for (must-haves)

• 5+ years building production Python systems
• Strong hands‑on Pandas usage in production data workflows
• Strong hands‑on FastAPI usage in production APIs
• Deployed and operated services on AWS (you’ve lived through failures, incidents, and fixes)
• Proven ownership of a meaningful codebase (≥10k LOC is a useful proxy)
• Experience handling messy/unstructured data (schema drift, missing fields, duplicates, weird formats)
• Comfortable working without detailed specs and without layers of process

How you operate (we care as much as skills)

• You own outcomes, not tasks
• You can explain why you built something a certain way—and what you deliberately did not build
• You think in failure modes (silent corruption, retries, idempotency, backfills, observability)

What this role is not

• Not a PM role with occasional coding
• Not “design abstractions and hand them off” — you own consequences in production

How we work

• Small team, high ownership
• Decisions happen close to the code
• We value clarity, reliability, and shipped systems over polish

Location

Berlin, Germany (remote-friendly within Germany)

Compensation

• €80,000–€110,000 base (based on demonstrated ownership and system‑level responsibility)
• Meaningful equity

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Software Development