Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Platform)

The role

You will build the software layer for autonomous manufacturing operations. This includes designing scalable backend services, intelligent data pipelines, and integrations with ERP and freight systems.

What you will do

• Architect Next.js API routes, background jobs, and serverless functions
• Develop and productionize LLM-based agents, AI/ML infrastructure, and RAG patterns
• Design Supabase/PostgreSQL schemas, migrations, and complex queries
• Build pipelines for order state management, notification triggers, and cross-system synchronization
• Design strategies for external API calls using caching and rate limiting
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability patterns
• Own incident response for all backend systems

Required qualifications

• Experience within the supply chain domain (manufacturing, procurement, logistics, or freight workflows)
• Experience designing reliable data processing with transactional guarantees
• Experience with NLP/ML pipelines for extracting data from unstructured documents and emails, including OCR and information extraction
• Familiarity integrating with ERP systems and freight/carrier APIs
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• TypeScript, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, RAG architectures, AWS, containerization, CI/CD, RESTful patterns
• 2–10+ years of relevant software engineering experience

About the company

clera is a seed-funded AI and supply chain automation startup serving US manufacturers.