Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Responsibilities

• Design and scale backend services with Next.js API routes, background jobs, and serverless functions for high-throughput order processing.
• Build and productionize LLM-based agents, AI/ML infrastructure, and RAG patterns for quote analysis and supplier recommendations.
• Design PostgreSQL schemas, migrations, and complex queries for materials, quotes, orders, and supplier relationships.
• Build event-driven pipelines for order state management, notifications, and cross-system synchronization.
• Implement caching, rate limiting, and reliability patterns for external API integrations.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability practices and own backend incident response.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of production experience building backend services, data pipelines, or platform infrastructure.
• Recent hands-on web and AI product development experience, including Next.js, TypeScript, and agentic frameworks.
• Experience building NLP or ML pipelines for extracting information from unstructured documents, including OCR.
• Strong experience with transactional guarantees, ACID semantics, exactly-once processing, and idempotent APIs.
• Experience scaling PostgreSQL or other relational databases and building event-driven systems or reliable data pipelines.
• Experience integrating ERP systems and third-party APIs, including legacy or poorly documented interfaces.
• Background in manufacturing supply chain, procurement, or logistics, with strong computer science fundamentals.

Benefits

• Annual salary range of $160,000 to $250,000 USD.
• Visa sponsorship is available.
• Remote position with San Francisco, California, United States as the primary location.