5 months ago
Base Salary
$240k - $320k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend systems that ingest and process large volumes of social data from Instagram, TikTok, X, and LinkedIn.
- Develop resilient third-party API integrations and optimize infrastructure supporting AI workloads.
- Improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across backend systems and data pipelines.
- Establish monitoring, incident response, and on-call operational practices.
- Build AI-powered product experiences including conversation inboxes, AI-suggested replies, and social conversation summaries.
- Improve shared components, design systems, and frontend architecture.
- Optimize application performance and reliability for thousands of daily users.
- Collaborate with product and design teams on workflows for brand and marketing teams.
- Write architecture documents and guide infrastructure, tooling, and frontend decisions.
- Review technical designs and code, mentor engineers, and strengthen engineering culture and development practices.
Requirements
- Strong experience designing, building, and operating production systems across backend, frontend, or full-stack engineering.
- Deep understanding of system design, distributed systems, and scalable architecture.
- Experience building reliable data pipelines on external APIs or complex, data-rich web applications with React.
- Strong user empathy and product intuition for designing and building features.
- Experience mentoring engineers and shaping engineering culture.
- Interest in AI-assisted engineering workflows and how AI is changing software development.
- Comfort working in a fast-moving startup with high ownership and end-to-end responsibility.
- Bonus: experience with high-scale data pipelines, real-time data processing, AI-powered user interfaces, LLM-integrated product features, analytics dashboards, production AI or machine learning integrations, or early-stage and rapidly scaling startups.
Tech Stack
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About Nectar
Nectar builds an AI-native platform for brands to run community, creator, and social commerce programs across major social channels. Its software combines social intelligence with agentic workflows to help retail and e-commerce teams deepen engagement and drive sales, typically sold as SaaS. The privately held company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, and raised a Series A in 2026.