Job Specifications
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 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.
About the Company
Tatari is building the infrastructure to modernize TV advertising for Brands, Agencies, and Publishers. Clients include Made In, Daily Harvest, Wpromote, and Fubo. Recognized by Business Insider as one of the Hottest Ad Tech Companies of 2023 and by Digiday as the Best CTV Platform of 2024, Tatari is headquartered in San Francisco with further offices in Los Angeles and New York. For additional information, please visit tatari.tv
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