About the Role
Join the platform team at an early-stage AI manufacturing supply chain startup. You will build backend services, data pipelines, and AI-powered systems that support procurement and supply chain operations, helping ensure goods move reliably through complex manufacturing 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 event-driven pipelines for order state management, notifications, and synchronization across systems.
Implement caching, rate limiting, and reliability strategies for external API integrations.
Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability practices, and participate in backend incident response.
What We're Looking For
At least 5 years of production experience building backend services, data pipelines, or platform infrastructure.
Hands-on experience with AI development, including NLP/ML pipelines for extracting information from unstructured documents using OCR or similar techniques.
Recent hands-on experience with Next.js, TypeScript, agentic frameworks, and PostgreSQL or a comparable relational database.
Experience designing transactional systems with ACID guarantees, idempotent APIs, and reliable event-driven processing.
Experience integrating with ERP systems and third-party APIs, including legacy or poorly documented interfaces.
Background in manufacturing supply chain, procurement, or logistics, and experience working on a startup or similarly small team.
Strong computer science fundamentals and experience with production monitoring, incident response, caching, and rate limiting.
Compensation & Benefits
The base salary range is $160,000 to $250,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
Remote role, with San Francisco, California as the primary location.