Clera

Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Platform

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5 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USASenior / Staff+
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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.
  • Build event-driven pipelines for order state management, notifications, and cross-system synchronization.
  • Implement caching, rate limiting, and reliability strategies for external API integrations.
  • Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability practices and participate in backend incident response.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of production experience building backend services, data pipelines, or platform infrastructure.
  • Hands-on AI development experience, including NLP/ML pipelines for extracting information from unstructured documents using OCR or similar techniques.
  • Recent hands-on experience with Next.js, TypeScript, agentic frameworks, and PostgreSQL or a comparable relational database.
  • Experience designing transactional systems with ACID guarantees, idempotent APIs, and reliable event-driven processing.
  • Experience integrating ERP systems and third-party APIs, including legacy or poorly documented interfaces.
  • Background in manufacturing supply chain, procurement, or logistics and experience working at a startup or similarly small team.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals and experience with production monitoring, incident response, caching, and rate limiting.

Benefits

  • Remote role with San Francisco, California as the primary location.
  • Visa sponsorship is available.
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