(Intern) Software Engineer

Your impact

Join our ambitious engineering team with the option to specialize in full-stack, frontend, or backend development and play a pivotal role in shaping cutting-edge software for industrial mid-sized companies. As an engineering intern, you'll contribute to critical technical decisions, deliver value to customers, and immerse yourself in a dynamic team culture. Gain hands-on experience in frameworks, tools, data models, and scalability, guided by a personal mentor dedicated to your learning and growth. Elevate your skills and make a real impact in one of our engineering roles as seen below:

Your tasks

• Build an enterprise app with a user-friendly interface, intuitive functionality, and consumer-grade appeal
• Develop scalable front-end and backend components in collaboration with the product team
• Design and iterate prototypes for efficient user testing
• Prioritize usability and accessibility, empathizing with users to deliver value
• Translate customer requirements into software solutions and user experiences
• Apply strong software development skills to create robust and performant software
• Define and refine the domain model and business logic for a complex enterprise app
• Assess implementation effort and complexity for future roadmap planning
• Develop backend structures and APIs for multiple customers
• Contribute to system architecture decisions for a solid B2B SaaS application
• Write clean, maintainable code with thorough testing for seamless collaboration
  
  

Your profile

We’re looking for a talented intern in software engineering with the option to specialise in full-stack development, frontend, or backend 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. We believe that problem-solving, creativity, and drive are more important than tools that can be picked up. However, the following references will give a guideline of what experiences we think might be helpful for the respective internship areas:

• Experience in developing a RESTful API, preferably with frameworks like FastAPI.
• Familiar with frontend libraries and frameworks such as Next, React, Zustand, React Hook Form, and more.
• Being able to apply component libraries like Material UI, extending applications with custom components.
• Proficient in object-oriented programming languages, especially Python.
• Ability to design a data model and set up a database, with knowledge of systems like PostgreSQL.
• Experience in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with expertise in TypeScript for Frontend Engineering.
• Knowledgeable in deploying applications to cloud services like Azure, GCP, or AWS.
• You are open to collaborate and learn together with other developers (backend and devops) for truly interdisciplinary work
  
  

Our Tech Stack

• Backend: Python, FastAPI, SQL Alchemy, Alembic, Pydantic, Pytest, …
• Frontend: TypeScript, NextJS, Zustand, Material UI, React Hook Form, …
• DB: PostgreSQL
• Data: Python, Prefect, Pandas, …
• Cloud: Azure
• Other: GitHub, GitHub Actions, Dependabot, Pre-commit, Mozilla SOPS, …
  
  

It is not expected to be completely familiar with each and every aspect of our tech stack.

Other technologies that we enjoy discussing and encourage in the team:

• Backend: Golang, Rust
• Frontend: Vue / Nuxt, Svelte / Svelte Kit, Tailwind, Bun, tRPC, …
• Linux: Nix, Arch, Ubuntu, i3, …
• Other: LLMs, LMMs, NeoVim Configs, …
  
  

About Us

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.