Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Platform)

About the role

Join a seed‑funded AI and supply‑chain automation startup serving US manufacturers. As a Senior/Staff Platform Engineer you will build the software layer that powers autonomous manufacturing operations, designing scalable backend services, intelligent data pipelines, and deep integrations with ERP and freight systems.

Key responsibilities

• Design and scale backend services using Next.js API routes, background jobs and serverless functions for high‑throughput order processing.
• Build AI‑powered agents, productionising LLM‑based models, AI/ML infrastructure and RAG patterns for quote analysis and supplier recommendations.
• Own the data layer by designing Supabase/PostgreSQL schemas, migrations and complex queries covering materials, quotes, orders and supplier relationships.
• Architect event‑driven systems and reliable pipelines for order state management, notifications and cross‑system synchronization.
• Implement caching and rate‑limiting strategies for external API calls to ensure reliability at scale.
• Drive platform reliability through monitoring, alerting, observability and incident response for all backend systems.

Required profile

• Experience within the supply‑chain domain (manufacturing, procurement, logistics or freight workflows).
• Proven ability to design reliable data processing with ACID semantics, exactly‑once processing and idempotent APIs.
• Experience with NLP/ML pipelines for extracting data from unstructured documents, including OCR and information extraction.
• Familiarity integrating with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle) and freight/carrier APIs, including legacy interfaces.
• Strong computer‑science fundamentals; all educational backgrounds welcome.
• 2–10+ years of relevant software‑engineering experience.

Required skills

• TypeScript
• Node.js
• Python
• PostgreSQL (Supabase)
• LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, RAG architectures
• AWS
• Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
• CI/CD pipelines
• RESTful APIs
• Next.js

What we offer

• Salary range $160,000 – $250,000 USD annually.
• Visa sponsorship available.