Clera

Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Platform)

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3 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$160k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect and scale backend services, 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 Supabase/PostgreSQL schemas, migrations, and complex queries for materials, quotes, orders, and suppliers.
  • Build event-driven pipelines for order state management, notification triggers, and cross-system synchronization.
  • Implement caching and rate-limiting strategies for reliable external API usage.
  • Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability patterns and own incident response for backend systems.
  • Integrate with ERP systems and freight/carrier APIs, including legacy and poorly documented interfaces.

Requirements

  • Experience in supply chain, manufacturing, procurement, logistics, or freight workflows.
  • Experience designing reliable data processing with transactional guarantees, ACID semantics, exactly-once processing, and idempotent APIs.
  • Experience with NLP/ML pipelines for extracting data from unstructured documents and emails, including OCR and information extraction.
  • Familiarity with ERP integrations such as SAP and Oracle and with freight/carrier APIs.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals; all educational backgrounds are welcome.
  • Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, RAG architectures, AWS, containerization, CI/CD, and RESTful patterns.
  • 2–10+ years of relevant software engineering experience.

Benefits

  • Salary of $160,000–$250,000 USD annually.
  • Visa sponsorship available.
  • On-site role in San Francisco, California; not remote.
  • Opportunity to work at a seed-funded startup building autonomous manufacturing operations.
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