Senior Software Engineer

Clera

$130K — $220K *
Hospitality & Recreation
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Full-stack development proficiency
  • Expertise in retrieval pipelines and knowledge grounding
  • Familiarity with AI model selection and prompt optimization
  • Experience with observability and tracing in complex systems
  • Proficient in backend languages like Python, Go, Rust, or Java
  • Experience in integrating third-party APIs

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement AI response generation systems
  • Develop knowledge retrieval for accurate conversations
  • Build orchestration layers for multi-step workflows
  • Create evaluation frameworks for monitoring system quality
  • Collaborate on user interfaces for non-technical stakeholders
  • Extend systems for real-time voice conversations
  • Optimize performance for speed and cost efficiency
  • Manage infrastructure, data pipelines, and API integrations

Benefits

  • Equity offered
  • No visa sponsorship available
Full Job Description
About the Role

A role on a hospitality focused AI platform team responsible for building and maintaining end to end AI systems. You will own substantial parts of the stack and work with a flat team to ship impactful features that improve guest interactions and operations.
What You'll Do
  • Design and implement the response generation and orchestration pipeline for AI agents.
  • Develop and ground knowledge retrieval to ensure accurate and current data in conversations.
  • Build tool orchestration layers for multi step workflows and handle third party API failures gracefully.
  • Create evaluation frameworks and observability controls to monitor quality and reliability.
  • Collaborate on interfaces that allow non technical stakeholders to adjust agent behavior.
  • Extend systems to voice conversations including real time transcription and tool use.
  • Optimize for speed and cost through routing, caching, and prompt refinement.
  • Own infrastructure, data pipelines, integrations, and API work that underpin the platform.
What We're Looking For
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience and a track record of shipping production systems
  • Experience across full stack and comfort solving problems across backend, frontend, data pipelines or infrastructure
  • Strong background in retrieval pipelines, knowledge grounding, or multi step workflows
  • Familiarity with AI model selection, routing, prompt optimization, and cost or latency considerations
  • Experience building observability, tracing, and debugging for complex pipelines
  • Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Python, Go, Rust, or Java
  • Hands on experience integrating with third party APIs and handling production failure modes
  • Strong communication skills and ability to influence product decisions
Compensation & Benefits
  • Equity offered
  • Visa sponsorship: not available
Location

On site in San Francisco, California, United States

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