Company

AI

Senior/StaffSoftwareEngineer(Platform)

$160–250k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Platform). Skills: Backend services, Data pipelines, AI-powered agents, Event-driven systems. Design and scale backend services. Architect Next.js API routes”

Industry & Context.

AI
Problems you'll solve

Incident response

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Experience within supply chain domain, Designing reliable data processing, NLP/ML pipelines experience, Integrating with ERP systems, Integrating with freight/carrier APIs

Nice to Have

LLM-based agents development, RAG patterns development, Vector databases experience, AWS experience, Containerization experience, CI/CD experience, RESTful patterns experience

What You'll Do.

Design and scale backend services

Architect Next.js API routes

Build background jobs

Develop serverless functions

Build AI-powered agents

Productionize LLM-based agents

Develop AI/ML infrastructure

Design Supabase/PostgreSQL schemas

Design complex queries

Architect event-driven systems

Build reliable pipelines

Implement rate limiting

Design strategies for API calls

Drive platform reliability

Establish observability

Own incident response

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Small, fast-moving team

Full Job Description

ABOUT THE ROLE Join a seed-funded AI and supply chain automation startup serving US manufacturers. As a Senior/Staff Platform Engineer, you will build the software layer that powers autonomous manufacturing operations — designing scalable backend services, intelligent data pipelines, and deep integrations with ERP and freight systems that move physical goods reliably. This is a high-impact, foundational role at a small, fast-moving team. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Design and scale backend services: Architect Next.js API routes, background jobs, and serverless functions to handle high-throughput order processing. - Build AI-powered agents: Develop and productionize LLM-based agents, AI/ML infrastructure, and RAG patterns for intelligent quote analysis and supplier recommendations. - Own the data layer: Design Supabase/PostgreSQL schemas, migrations, and complex queries covering materials, quotes, orders, and supplier relationships. - Architect event-driven systems: Build reliable pipelines for order state management, notification triggers, and cross-system synchronization. - Implement caching and rate limiting: Design strategies for external API calls to ensure reliability at scale. - Drive platform reliability: Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability patterns; own incident response for all backend systems. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Required: Experience within the supply chain domain (manufacturing, procurement, logistics, or freight workflows). - Proven experience designing reliable data processing with transactional guarantees — ACID semantics, exactly-once processing, and idempotent APIs. - Experience with NLP/ML pipelines for extracting data from unstructured documents and emails, including OCR and information extraction. - Familiarity integrating with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle) and freight/carrier APIs, including legacy or poorly documented interfaces. - Strong computer science fundamentals; all educational backgrounds welcome. - Tech stack: TypeScript, Node

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