Senior Backend Engineer — AI-Driven Logistics Platform

Thomas Talent Network; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential client in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own the core data infrastructure powering an AI-driven logistics platform. This high-ownership, zero-to-one role will design and scale systems that ingest, process, and serve real-time logistics data across AI pipelines, queues, databases, and search layers.

You will define service boundaries, set backend engineering standards, and work closely with founders on roadmap and technical direction, with opportunities to

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of professional software engineering experience
• Bachelor's degree from a reputable university

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale distributed backend systems, design queue pipelines, communication hubs, and observability layers; build for failure with retry strategies, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation
• Own database design and reliability, schema design, indexing, query optimization, and data pipelines that keep systems in sync at scale
• Build an AI search infrastructure for real-time logistics lookup and AI-driven features
• Define service boundaries and set engineering standards for the backend
• Collaborate directly with founders on roadmap and technical direction
• Help hire and mentor future backend engineers as the team scales

Skills

Software engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Confidential client in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own the core data infrastructure powering an AI-driven logistics platform. This high-ownership, zero-to-one role will design and scale systems that ingest, process, and serve real-time logistics data across AI pipelines, queues, databases, and search layers.

You will define service boundaries, set backend engineering standards, and work closely with founders on roadmap and technical direction, with opportunities to