# Senior Backend Engineer

Hiring organization: [Tatari](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/tatari)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/8f986528-98bc-4b7f-82a4-cfc439e38d1b

Listed on Tatari's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Salary: 170000 – 200000 USD per year

## Summary

Tatari seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to architect and scale their TV advertising platform, working with distributed systems, modern data infrastructure, and LLM-based technologies. This role suits someone with 6+ years of backend development experience who can mentor others and drive technical decisions across a fast-growing fintech-adjacent company.

_Our summary, not Tatari's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Apache Airflow, Apache Kafka, Cursor AI, Databricks, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), GraphQL, gRPC, Prompt Engineering, Python, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Retrofit (REST), SPARK, SQL

## Required

- 6+ years developing software with object-oriented and/or functional programming languages
- Python required
- Hands-on experience with agentic coding tools (Cursor, Copilot, Cody)
- Experience evaluating and deploying LLM-based systems in production
- 4+ years building distributed systems at scale
- 4+ years with modern data stack (RDS, Databricks, Spark, Redshift, Kafka, Airflow, lakehouse architectures, real-time databases, dbt)
- Deep SQL and data modeling expertise
- Experience working across the organization delivering on large impact initiatives

## Nice to have

- Experience developing highly available APIs using modern frameworks (REST, gRPC, GraphQL)
- Experience developing applied AI/ML-enabled features
- Familiarity with prompt engineering, RAG architectures, evaluation frameworks, or fine-tuning

Apply on Tatari's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tatari/jobs/8617788002