Freelance Software Engineer

Freelancer, Full-time · München

Your mission

Join our dynamic engineering team as a freelancer for the next 6 to 12 months specializing in full-stack, frontend, or backend development. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the development of innovative software solutions for industrial mid-sized companies. As a freelance software engineer, you will play a crucial role in driving technical decisions, delivering customer value, and working within a dynamic team environment. This is your chance to gain valuable experience in various frameworks, tools, data models, and scalability, while making a tangible impact on our projects.

Your responsibilities

Develop and refine an enterprise application with a user-friendly interface and consumer-grade appeal.
Collaborate with the product team to build scalable front-end and backend components.
Design, iterate, and test prototypes for efficient user interaction.
Focus on usability and accessibility, empathizing with users to provide top-tier solutions.
Translate customer requirements into effective software solutions and user experiences.
Utilize strong software development skills to create robust, high-performance software.
Define and refine domain models and business logic for complex enterprise applications.
Provide estimates on implementation effort and complexity for project planning.
Develop backend structures and APIs tailored for diverse customer needs.
Participate in system architecture decisions, contributing to a robust B2B SaaS application.
Write clean, maintainable code, ensuring thorough testing for seamless integration.

Your profile

We are seeking a freelance software engineer with a passion for tech innovation and a drive to develop cutting-edge software solutions. Here’s what we are looking for:

Experience in RESTful API development, preferably with frameworks like FastAPI.
Proficiency in frontend libraries and frameworks, including Next, React, Zustand, and React Hook Form.
Capability to use component libraries like Material UI and develop custom components.
Strong skills in object-oriented programming, especially Python.
Ability to design data models and set up databases, with experience in systems like PostgreSQL.
Expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript (for Frontend Engineering).
Experience deploying applications to cloud services like Azure, GCP, or AWS.

This freelance role is perfect for someone who wants to contribute to a fast-growing tech startup, shape innovative products, and enhance user experiences. If you specialize in fullstack, frontend, or backend development and are excited about building the future of procurement software for industrial SMEs, we’d love to hear from you!

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About us

What we do
We are Tacto, a Munich-based startup with a mission to create 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: A supply chain operating system 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:

Powering the industry that builds the world: We create a new wave of innovation by lifting Europe’s industrial backbone with tens of millions of workers to the digital era
Enabling powerful business collaboration: We enable powerful collaboration among supplier networks as the basis for future economic growth
Saving resources in supply chains: We optimize the 50-80% of costs and emissions of physical products originating from suppliers to enhance sustainable growth

Why you should consider joining:

Timing: Our product manages hundreds of millions of € of material to manufacture physical products from bread cutters to medical technology. The Industrial Mittelstand trusts us and we are ready to scale! Join us to shape the future of our organization & product!
Top investors believe in us: We are supported 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 to show them they invested wisely!
Team: We are an interdisciplinary and international team that is highly motivated to succeed, but loves to laugh. Join us to grow personally as well as professionally, accelerated by our supportive culture that includes everyone.
Impact: We are reshaping industrial procurement, which is the biggest value driver of manufacturing companies - there is no physical product in the world without procurement involved. Join us to future-proof the most important economic sector in Germany with over 10 million employees.

Why us:

Apart from the people, our culture, and mission, we offer you a workplace with above-average compensation and a high level of personal responsibility. It's important for us to create an environment in which you can grow professionally and personally.

Your vacation: 26 paid vacation days per year + christmas & silvester.
Your office: We embrace an office culture, and all our employees enjoy coming to our beautiful office at Königsplatz in Munich. However, you also have the flexibility to work remotely at times. Our guideline is 3-4 days in the office and 1-2 days working from home.
Your setup: Choose your preferred equipment and work environment – whether it's Mac, Windows, or Linux. We want you to feel comfortable.
Your team: We are growing and have fun together with team lunches, coffee dates, chess games, bouldering sessions, and more – everything is optional, no pressure.
Your safe space: We believe that a diverse workplace where different voices are heard makes us stronger.
Your health: We provide company health insurance (if you are new to the German work environment) and offer you a membership in the Urban Sports Club or Wellpass.

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Your application!

We appreciate your interest in Tacto. Please fill out the following short form. Should you have any difficulties in uploading your files, please contact us by mail at robert.kaiser@tacto.ai.