Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Join the platform team at an early-stage AI company working in manufacturing supply chains. You will build the backend services, data systems, and AI capabilities that support reliable procurement and movement of materials through complex workflows.

• 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 reliable event-driven pipelines for order state management, notifications, and cross-system synchronization.

• Implement caching and rate limiting to support dependable external API integrations.

• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability practices, and own incident response for backend systems.

Remote within the United States. Primary location: San Francisco, California.

• Staff or Senior Staff-level experience and a track record of building products and systems from the ground up, with 4 to 12 years of professional experience.

• Professional TypeScript experience and recent hands-on experience with Next.js, plus full-stack experience across TypeScript, Python, and Go.

• A strong data engineering background, including data pipelines and large-scale data processing.

• Hands-on AI development or AI infrastructure experience, including production LLM products, LLMOps, model evaluation, and familiarity with the broader AI/ML lifecycle.

• Experience with AWS or other cloud infrastructure, including security and data privacy, and with owning internal tools and systems end to end.

• Manufacturing supply chain, procurement, or logistics domain knowledge is valuable.

Base salary: $160,000 to $250,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.