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title: 'Senior Backend Engineer at Tatari'
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# Senior Backend Engineer at Tatari

- **Company:** Tatari
- **Location:** Los Angeles California, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-07-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tatari/jobs/8617788002

## Job description

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, Manscaped, 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](https://www.tatari.tv/insights/tatari-named-best-ctv-adtech-platform-in-2025-martech-breakthrough-awards) in the 8th annual MarTech Breakthrough Awards, as well as honors from Digiday (https://www.tatari.tv/insights/tatari-awarded-best-ctv-ad-platform, AdExchanger ([Most Innovative TV Advertising Technology](https://www.tatari.tv/insights/tatari-wins-adexchangers-2023-most-innovative-tv-advertising-technology-award)), and Business Insider (https://www.tatari.tv/insights/business-insider-names-Tatari-a-2023-hottest-adtech-company. Tatari has also been recognized as the [Best Place to Work](https://www.tatari.tv/insights/inc-magazine-names-tatari-a-best-workplace-for-the-3rd-year-in-a-row) 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 Senior Backend Engineers to join Tatari and play a key role in the evolution and scaling of our platform. In this role, you will 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
- Hands-on experience with agentic coding tools (e.g., Cursor, Copilot, Cody) to accelerate development while maintaining a high quality bar
- Experience evaluating and deploying LLM-based systems in production (latency, cost, reliability trade-offs)
- 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 highly available API using modern frameworks (e.g. REST, gRPC, GraphQL)
- Experience developing applied AI/ML-enabled features
- Familiarity with prompt engineering, RAG architectures, evaluation frameworks, or fine-tuning

## Benefits

- Total compensation ($170,000 - $200,000)
- Equity compensation
- Health insurance coverage for you and your dependents
- 401K, FSA, and commuter benefits
- $150 monthly spending account
- $1,000 annual continued education benefit
- $500 Newbie Productivity Perk
- Unlimited PTO and sick days
- Monthly Company Wellness Day Off
- Snacks, drinks, and catered lunches at the office
- Team building events
- Hybrid RTO of 2 days per week in office

## About Tatari

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tatari builds infrastructure to modernize TV advertising, providing a convergent TV ad platform for buying and measuring campaigns across streaming TV, linear TV, and online video.
- **Entity Type**: Private
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: Year not explicitly stated on primary sources; executive bios indicate it was founded in the mid-2010s.
- **Founders**: Philip Inghelbrecht (CEO, Co-Founder) and Mike Swinson (Co-Founder, Chief Data Scientist)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Advertising Technology (AdTech) — specifically TV advertising and data analytics.
- **Target Customers**: B2B — brands, agencies, and publishers. Serves everyone from first-time TV advertisers to those spending $100M+ per year.
- **Mission/Purpose**: To bring automation, control, and transparency to TV advertising, providing a "clear way forward" as TV and digital converge.

## Products & Services
- **Tatari Platform (Self-Serve)**: A unified platform for planning, buying, and measuring TV ad campaigns across linear and streaming TV. Includes optional strategy and managed services.
- **Vault Data Clean Room**: A technology for secure data collaboration between advertisers and publishers.
- **TheViewPoint**: A measurement and analytics tool for evaluating TV advertising performance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric (Funding)**: Total funding is not explicitly stated in the provided sources. The company is private and has raised venture capital (notable investors include those tied to founders' previous ventures).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly listed in the provided sources. However, the executive team includes former leaders from Shazam, TrueCar, AdapTV, LiveRail, LKQD, Remixation, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Stripe, and Yahoo.
- **Growth Signals**: Actively hiring across multiple departments (52 open jobs as of the search date), with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Poland, and Ukraine. The company has built technology for both the buy-side and sell-side of TV advertising, indicating platform expansion.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Convergent TV Focus**: Tatari is a dedicated platform for both linear and streaming TV, a niche that is growing rapidly as TV advertising converges with digital.
- **Data Science Core**: Founded and led by data scientists and engineers (not traditional agency folks), giving it a strong technical and analytical moat.
- **Self-Service + Managed Service**: Offers both a self-serve platform for sophisticated buyers and a full-service option for those needing more support, covering a wide market segment.

## Strategic Focus
- **Platform Expansion**: Building infrastructure for both advertisers (buy-side) and publishers (sell-side), moving beyond just a buying tool to a full ecosystem.
- **Data Collaboration**: Development of data clean rooms (Vault) to enable secure, privacy-compliant data sharing.
- **Measurement & Attribution**: Continued investment in analytics and measurement tools to prove TV advertising ROI.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as fast-paced, intellectually stimulating, and supportive. The company emphasizes a "learn from mistakes" attitude and values diverse perspectives. They have employee resource groups, volunteer events, and social activities.
- **Work Model**: Hybrid in-office + work-from-home schedule. Offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Poland, and Ukraine.
- **Engineering Focus**: The team is heavily weighted toward engineers and data scientists. The engineering culture is described as building solutions to mission-critical problems with a lean, fast-moving approach.
- **Perks**: Inclusive culture with events, book clubs, meditation classes, and family activities.

## Sources
1. [tatari.tv - Company Homepage](https://www.tatari.tv/)
2. [tatari.tv - About Page](https://www.tatari.tv/about-tv-ad-technology-company)
3. [tatari.tv - Team Page](https://www.tatari.tv/about-us/our-team)
4. [tatari.tv - Careers Page](https://www.tatari.tv/careers)
5. [Greenhouse - Tatari Job Board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tatari/jobs/8403003002)

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