# Senior Backend Engineer

**Company:** [Tatari](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/tatari)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $170k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Python, SQL, Distributed Systems, Rds, Databricks, Spark, Redshift, Kafka, Airflow, dbt, LLMs, RAG, Rest, gRPC, GraphQL
**Posted:** 2026-07-02

> Senior Backend Engineer on the Reporting & Measurement team at Tatari, building and scaling TV advertising analytics and measurement platform. Requires 6+ years Python experience, strong data engineering skills, and production LLM deployment background.

## Job Description

## 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

## Requirements
- 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-Haves
- Experience developing highly available APIs 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

## Compensation & 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

## Similar roles

- [Senior Software Engineer, Crusoe Container Registry](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/eeeef8a9-6588-4933-8c79-37cd03810851) - Crusoe - San Francisco, CA - $170k – $205k/yr
- [Senior Software Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/fc163dcc-1ffb-4d08-ba31-d4ccb09df843) - Illumio - Sunnyvale, CA - $170k – $196k/yr
- [Senior Software Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/20c43a51-969e-4c6a-89eb-2162f12e5b4c) - Current - New York, NY - $170k – $250k/yr
- [Senior Backend Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/6a929ae6-29f2-4e7a-99d7-b74f3c1d4f46) - Tatari - San Francisco, CA - $170k – $200k/yr
- [Senior Healthcare Integrations Software Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/a0220624-82ac-416e-8c89-df7183f8b74b) - Prompt Health - Remote - $170k – $200k/yr

**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/0003fc61-99db-4af6-a6f3-11fa7e6b7119
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/0003fc61-99db-4af6-a6f3-11fa7e6b7119