Clera

Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Clera
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4 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USASenior / Staff+
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Base Salary

$160k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and scale backend services using Next.js API routes, background jobs, and serverless functions.
  • 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.
  • Build event-driven pipelines for order state management, notifications, and cross-system synchronization.
  • Implement caching, rate limiting, and reliability strategies for external API calls.
  • Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability practices and own backend incident response.
  • Integrate ERP systems and third-party APIs, including legacy or poorly documented interfaces.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of production experience building backend services, data pipelines, or platform infrastructure.
  • Professional TypeScript experience with recent hands-on Next.js and direct web development experience.
  • Experience designing transactional systems with ACID guarantees, exactly-once processing, and idempotent APIs.
  • Hands-on AI development or AI DevOps experience, including NLP or ML pipelines for extracting information from unstructured documents such as OCR workflows.
  • Experience building or productionizing LLM-based agents, using agentic frameworks, or implementing RAG patterns.
  • Strong PostgreSQL and relational database skills, plus experience with event-driven systems, queues, or reliable data pipelines.
  • Experience integrating ERP systems and third-party APIs.
  • Experience with monitoring, alerting, observability, and incident response for backend systems.
  • Professional experience in manufacturing supply chain, procurement, or logistics is preferred, ideally in a startup or small company.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $160,000 to $250,000 annually.
  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • Remote work, with a primary location in San Francisco, California, United States.
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