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# Backend Engineer

- **Company:** Tatari, Inc.
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $170,000.0 - $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Databases, Data Warehousing, Relational Databases, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Object-Oriented Software Development, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Systems Architecture, Web Application Frameworks, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, Apache Spark, Amazon Relational Database Service, Low Latency, Apache Kafka, Graphql, Functional Programming, Restful APIs, Grpc, Amazon Redshift, Databricks
- **Published:** July 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/a3e6aae9-0386-472f-8697-385045c7d9c6

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

* 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


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