About the Role Join the platform team at an early-stage AI and manufacturing supply chain company. You will build the backend services, data pipelines, and integrations that coordinate AI-powered agents and transactions across manufacturing workflows, helping ensure physical goods move reliably through complex operations. What You'll Do • Design and scale backend services using 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 strategies for external API calls. • Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability practices, and own backend incident response. What We're Looking For • At least 5 years of production experience building backend services, data pipelines, or platform infrastructure. • Professional TypeScript experience, with recent hands-on work using Next.js and direct web development experience. • Experience designing transactional systems with ACID guarantees, exactly-once processing, and idempotent APIs. • Hands-on AI development or AI DevOps experience, including NLP or ML pipelines for extracting information from unstructured documents, such as OCR workflows. • Experience building or productionizing LLM-based agents, working with agentic frameworks, or implementing RAG patterns. • Strong PostgreSQL and relational database skills, plus experience with event-driven systems, queues, or reliable data pipelines. • Experience integrating ERP systems and third-party APIs, including legacy or poorly documented interfaces. • Experience with monitoring, alerting, observability, and incident response for backend systems. • Professional experience in manufacturing supply chain, procurement, or logistics, ideally in a startup or small company. Compensation & Benefits Base salary: $160,000 to $250,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available. Location Remote, with a primary location in San Francisco, California, United States.