Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Platform

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Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Platform in USA

Clera
Full time
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USA
10/11/2026
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San Francisco, CA

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 patterns for external API integrations.
Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability practices and own backend incident response.

Requirements

At least 5 years of production experience building backend services, data pipelines, or platform infrastructure.
Recent hands-on web and AI product development experience, including Next.js, TypeScript, and agentic frameworks.
Experience building NLP or ML pipelines for extracting information from unstructured documents, including OCR.
Strong experience with transactional guarantees, ACID semantics, exactly-once processing, and idempotent APIs.
Experience scaling PostgreSQL or other relational databases and building event-driven systems or reliable data pipelines.
Experience integrating ERP systems and third-party APIs, including legacy or poorly documented interfaces.
Background in manufacturing supply chain, procurement, or logistics, with strong computer science fundamentals.

Benefits

Annual salary range of $160,000 to $250,000 USD.
Visa sponsorship is available.
Remote position with San Francisco, California, United States as the primary location.

Salary: $160k - $250k/yr

Clera

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