Clera
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Platform
San Francisco. Posted 7 days ago
The role
You will build backend services, data systems, and AI capabilities for an early-stage AI company in manufacturing supply chains. This includes designing scalable services, building LLM-based agents, and designing PostgreSQL schemas.
What you will do
- Design and scale backend services with Next.js API routes, background jobs, and serverless functions
- Build and productionize LLM-based agents, AI/ML infrastructure, and RAG patterns
- Design PostgreSQL schemas, migrations, and complex queries
- Build reliable event-driven pipelines for order state management, notifications, and cross-system synchronization
- Implement caching and rate limiting for external API integrations
- Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability practices
- Own incident response for backend systems
Required qualifications
- Staff or Senior Staff-level experience
- Track record of building products and systems from the ground up
- 4 to 12 years of professional experience
- Professional TypeScript experience
- Recent hands-on experience with Next.js
- Full-stack experience across TypeScript, Python, and Go
- Strong data engineering background including data pipelines and large-scale data processing
- Hands-on AI development or AI infrastructure experience
- Experience with production LLM products, LLMOps, and model evaluation
- Familiarity with the broader AI/ML lifecycle
- Experience with AWS or other cloud infrastructure including security and data privacy
- Experience with owning internal tools and systems end to end
Nice to have
- Manufacturing supply chain, procurement, or logistics domain knowledge is valuable
Before you apply
- Visa sponsorship is available
About the company
clera is an early-stage AI company working in manufacturing supply chains.