3 hours ago
Base Salary
$160k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Architect event-driven systems, message processing, and reliable pipelines for order state management, notifications, and cross-system synchronization.
- Implement caching and rate limiting for reliable external API integrations at scale.
- Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability patterns and own incident response for backend systems.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building backend services, data pipelines, or platform infrastructure in production environments.
- Strong hands-on TypeScript and Next.js experience with recent direct web development involvement.
- Experience designing transactional systems with ACID semantics, exactly-once processing, and idempotent APIs.
- Experience building NLP/ML pipelines for extracting data from unstructured documents, including OCR and information extraction.
- Experience designing and scaling PostgreSQL or relational database schemas for transactional workloads.
- Experience building event-driven systems, message queues, or reliable state-management and synchronization pipelines.
- Experience integrating ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle and third-party APIs, including legacy or poorly documented interfaces.
- Recent hands-on AI experience with agentic frameworks alongside web development work.
- Professional experience in manufacturing supply chain, procurement, or logistics.
- Strong computer science fundamentals and the ability to work flexibly on a small, fast-moving team.
- Experience with Supabase or similar managed PostgreSQL platforms is preferred.
- Experience with RAG patterns or similar AI/ML infrastructure is preferred.
- Prior experience as a founder or founding engineer at a startup is strongly preferred.
Benefits
- Fully remote role within the United States.
- Being based in or willing to work in San Francisco, California is preferred.