Software Engineer, Backend

Tatari is on a mission to revolutionize TV advertising. Founded in 2016 to help transform the antiquated world of TV advertising through the intelligent application of AI and machine learning, Tatari helps some of the world’s fastest growing brands including Chime, Calm, Tecovas, Manscapped, Saatva, and Liquid I.V., reach their customers 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, enabling businesses of any size to advertise on TV.

That approach has earned Tatari broad industry recognition, including being named Best CTV AdTech Platform in the 8th annual MarTech Breakthrough Awards, as well as honors from Digiday (Best Connected TV Platform), AdExchanger (Most Innovative TV Advertising Technology), and Business Insider (Hottest AdTech Companies). Tatari has also been recognized as the Best Place to Work by Inc. Magazine. Backed by an executive team of former founders and senior leaders from companies including Shazam, TrueCar, AdapTV, LiveRail, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Yahoo, Tatari continues to scale rapidly as TV advertising enters its next major era.

We are looking for Backend Engineers to join Tatari. As a Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in the evolution and scaling of our platform. You’ll participate in system architecture decisions, develop best practices, and ship high-quality code to production. 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:

• Write clean, concise application code in modern Python
• Participate in technical architecture discussions and peer code reviews
• Drive architectural changes such as enhanced data pipelines and scalable APIs
• Collaborate cross-departmentally to understand business needs and develop new product features

Qualifications:

• 3+ years developing software with object-oriented and/or functional programming languages - Python required
• 2+ years building distributed systems at scale
• 2+ 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
• Nice to have: 
• Experience developing API frameworks (e.g. REST, gRPC, GraphQL)
• Interest in 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 ($120,000-175,000/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

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.

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