Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Platform

About this role

### About the Role

Join the platform team at an early-stage AI company working in manufacturing supply chains. You will build the backend services, data systems, and AI capabilities that support reliable procurement and movement of materials through complex workflows.

### What You'll Do

• 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 reliable event-driven pipelines for order state management, notifications, and cross-system synchronization.
• Implement caching and rate limiting to support dependable external API integrations.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability practices, and own incident response for backend systems.

### What We're Looking For

• Staff or Senior Staff-level experience and a track record of building products and systems from the ground up, with 4 to 12 years of professional experience.
• Professional TypeScript experience and recent hands-on experience with Next.js, plus full-stack experience across TypeScript, Python, and Go.
• A strong data engineering background, including data pipelines and large-scale data processing.
• Hands-on AI development or AI infrastructure experience, including production LLM products, LLMOps, model evaluation, and familiarity with the broader AI/ML lifecycle.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud infrastructure, including security and data privacy, and with owning internal tools and systems end to end.
• Manufacturing supply chain, procurement, or logistics domain knowledge is valuable.

### Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $160,000 to $250,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

### Location

Remote within the United State...