Clera

Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Platform)

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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 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, reliable pipelines, notification triggers, and cross-system synchronization.
  • Implement caching and rate limiting for reliable external API calls at scale.
  • Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability patterns and own incident response for backend systems.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building backend services, data pipelines, or platform infrastructure in production environments.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals and experience with transactional guarantees, 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, migrations, and complex queries for transactional workloads.
  • Experience building event-driven systems, message queues, or reliable data pipelines for state management and cross-system synchronization.
  • Experience integrating ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle and third-party APIs, including legacy or poorly documented interfaces.
  • Professional experience in manufacturing supply chain, procurement, or logistics domains.
  • Familiarity with Next.js API routes or serverless architectures is a plus.
  • Experience with managed PostgreSQL platforms, RAG patterns, or productionizing LLM-based agents in backend systems is a plus.

Benefits

  • Salary range of $160,000 to $250,000 USD annually.
  • Equity included.
  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • Fully remote role open to candidates based in the United States, with San Francisco, California as the primary anchor location.

Tech Stack

Next.jsPostgreSQL
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