[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Clera

Role Description

Join the Platform team at an early-stage AI-powered manufacturing supply chain company. You will build the backend services, data pipelines, and integrations that coordinate intelligent agents and support reliable movement of goods through complex manufacturing workflows.

• Design and scale backend services, 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 synchronization across systems.
• Implement caching, rate limiting, and reliability patterns for external API calls.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability practices, and take ownership of backend incident response.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of production experience building backend services, data pipelines, or platform infrastructure, with Senior or Staff-level scope.
• Recent hands-on experience with TypeScript, Next.js, and AI or agentic frameworks in web development.
• Experience building NLP/ML pipelines to extract information from unstructured documents, including OCR.
• Strong understanding of transactional guarantees, including ACID semantics, exactly-once processing, and idempotent APIs.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or relational databases, event-driven systems, message queues, and 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, plus experience with observability and incident response.
• Familiarity with LLM agents, RAG, or managed PostgreSQL platforms is useful.

Benefits

• The salary range is $160,000 to $250,000 annually.
• Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

Remote, with San Francisco, California as the primary location.