Senior Software Architect — AI-Native Platform, Hybrid

Trynectar; Palo Alto, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation + equity

Health, vision, dental

Hybrid work schedule (4 days in office

Housing stipend $1,000/month

Monthly mobile stipend $50

Internet stipend $50

Commuter benefits (train or parking)

Free lunch near University Ave, Palo

Job summary

Nectar Social in Palo Alto seeks a Senior Software Engineer to architect and scale core systems powering the platform. You will build infrastructure that ingests, processes, and analyzes large volumes of social data for real-time AI agents.

You will combine hands-on coding with architectural leadership, guiding evolution as we scale customers, data, and capabilities while mentoring engineers across the team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production software systems.
• Strong experience designing and scaling distributed systems, data infrastructure, or complex production platforms.
• Proven ability to architect systems and drive major technical decisions.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing engineering direction.
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving startup environments with high ownership and autonomy.
• Strong product intuition and ability to collaborate with product and design teams.
• Interest in AI-native engineering workflows and how AI is transforming software development.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale the core systems that ingest and process large volumes of social data from platforms like Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit, and LinkedIn.
• Design data pipelines that power AI agents and real-time analytics used by customers.
• Lead major technical decisions across the platform, writing design docs and establishing scalable architecture patterns.
• Improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across data and AI infrastructure as the platform scales.
• Mentor engineers and review system designs and code to raise the engineering bar across the team.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to solve complex technical problems and deliver impactful systems.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Architectural leadership

Mentoring engineers

Real-time data processing

AI-native engineering

Startup adaptability

Tools

AWS

Pulumi

Postgres

ClickHouse

Job description

Nectar Social in Palo Alto seeks a Senior Software Engineer to architect and scale core systems powering the platform. You will build infrastructure that ingests, processes, and analyzes large volumes of social data for real-time AI agents.

You will combine hands-on coding with architectural leadership, guiding evolution as we scale customers, data, and capabilities while mentoring engineers across the team.