Nectar Social

Nectar Social

Staff Software Engineer

Palo Alto, CA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 74 days ago
TypeScriptReactDistributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentPostgreSQLAWSMachine LearningData EngineeringLLMsAgentic AIIncident ResponseDesign SystemsLeadershipMentoring

About the role

  • This role combines deep engineering with technical leadership.
  • Whether you lean more toward backend systems or product/frontend, you'll shape architectural decisions, raise the quality bar across the codebase, and help establish strong engineering practices as the team and platform scale.
  • Our tech stack is TypeScript, React, Shadcn, Zustand, AWS, Pulumi, Postgres, ClickHouse, and Turbopuffer.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build backend systems that ingest and process large volumes of social data from platforms like Instagram, TikTok, X, and LinkedIn
  • Develop resilient integrations with third-party APIs and optimize the infrastructure that powers our AI workloads
  • Build AI-powered product experiences such as conversation inboxes, AI-suggested replies, and summarization of social conversations into actionable insights
  • Improve shared components, design systems, and frontend architecture to enable faster and higher-quality product development
  • Optimize performance and reliability across the application as it scales to support thousands of daily users
  • Collaborate closely with product and design teams to deliver intuitive workflows for brand and marketing teams
  • Write architecture documents and guide infrastructure, tooling, and frontend decisions across the engineering team
  • Review technical designs and code from other engineers - providing feedback that raises the quality bar across the team
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to building strong engineering culture and development practices

Requirements

  • Experience mentoring engineers and shaping engineering culture
  • Comfort operating in a fast-moving startup environment with high ownership and end-to-end responsibility
  • Experience working with high-scale data pipelines or real-time data processing systems

Skills

  • Improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across our backend and data pipelines as the platform scales
  • Establish operational best practices including monitoring, incident response, and on-call culture

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