Senior Software Engineer, Backend

About Tatari

Tatari is on a mission to revolutionize TV advertising. We work with some of your favorite disruptor brands—like Calm, Vuori, Rocket Money, and hundreds more—to grow their business using linear and streaming TV ads. Our platform combines sophisticated media buying with proprietary analytics to turn TV advertising into an automated, digital-like experience. Our technology and services are pushing the industry forward, enabling businesses of any size to advertise on TV.

Named one of the 16 Hottest Ad Tech Companies by Business Insider and Best Places to Work by Inc. Magazine, Tatari is experiencing rapid growth. Our executive team is comprised of former founders and senior leaders at fast-rising startups like Shazam, TrueCar, AdapTV, and LiveRail and larger, more established tech companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Yahoo.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join Tatari. As a Senior Engineer, you will play a leading role in the evolution and scaling of our platform. You’ll contribute to system architecture decisions, mentor junior team members, promote best practices, and ship high-quality code to production daily. At Tatari you are empowered to do your best work at a sustainable pace with a stellar group of smart, creative, and humble human beings. Come help us build a television first programmatic buying experience!

Responsibilities

• Architect and own the development of new features
• Collaborate with tact and lead with empathy across the organization on system architecture, technology, and scaling decisions
• Mentor more junior members of the team
• Design relational and non-relational data models for optimal storage, retrieval, and complex processing/calculations
• Drive technical architecture discussions and peer code reviews
• Collaborate effectively with Data Science, Product, and across engineering teams to push boundaries, shape our roadmap, and deliver on our mission

Qualifications

• 6+ years developing software with object-oriented and/or functional programming languages - Python required
• 4+ years building distributed systems at scale
• 4+ years with a modern data stack (RDS, Databricks, Spark, Redshift, Kafka, Airflow,, lakehouse architectures, real-time databases, dbt, etc.)
• Deep SQL and data modeling expertise
• Experience working across the organization delivering on large impact initiatives

Nice to have

• Experience developing API frameworks (e.g. REST, gRPC, GraphQL)
• Experience developing AI/ML-enabled features
• Experience enhancing development processes by leveraging agentic coding tools while maintaining a high bar for quality (e.g. Cursor)

Benefits

• Total compensation ($170,000 - 195,000/annually)
• Equity compensation
• Health insurance coverage for you and your dependents, with minimum contribution and buy-up plans
• Unlimited PTO and sick days
• Snacks, drinks, and catered lunches at the office
• Team building events
• $1,000 annual continued education benefit
• $500 WFH reimbursement
• $150 Monthly work-related stipend
• FSA and commuter benefits
• Monthly Company Wellness Day Off
• Hybrid RTO of 2 days per week. THIS IS AN IN-OFFICE POSITION

Diversity & Inclusion

At Tatari, we believe in the importance of cultivating teams with diverse backgrounds and offering equal opportunities to all. We strive to create a welcoming, inclusive environment where every team member feels valued and diversity is celebrated.