Technical Lead, Customs Platform — Remote/Hybrid + Equity

KlearNow.ai; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity

401(k)

Hybrid work (San Jose, CA)

Flexible time off

Job summary

KlearNow seeks an experienced backend leader to own the customs module end to end, from data model to filing and post-entry corrections. You will shape architecture, drive the team, and ensure deterministic behavior in a high-stakes domain.

You'll lead design of entry, duty engine, and ABI filing with ACE, build agent workflows, and evolve the system with data-driven changes. Collaboration across time zones with our Gurgaon team is expected.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building backend systems.
• 2+ years as a hands-on technical lead.
• Strong backend engineering in a modern language, plus working Python.
• Production experience with event-driven distributed systems on AWS and Kubernetes.
• LLM or agent features shipped to real users, with evaluations used to gate releases.
• Experience in a rules-heavy domain where errors are expensive, such as customs, tax or payments.
• Clear writing, and comfort working with our Gurgaon team across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Own the design of the customs module: entry data model, duty and fee engine, CATAIR validation, and ABI filing with ACE.
• Build the brokerage agent workflow, where agents draft and check entries and a broker approves before anything is filed.
• Keep regulated logic deterministic and tested, and use models only where inputs are ambiguous.
• Build the evaluation sets that gate every prompt, model and rule change.
• Make tariff and regulatory changes land as data or configuration in days.
• Consolidate services, own the module in production, and lead, hire and mentor the team.

Skills

Backend development

Python

AWS

Kubernetes

Event-driven architecture

Technical leadership

LLM / agents

Communication across time zones

Java

Tools

Micronaut

Java 21

Job description

KlearNow seeks an experienced backend leader to own the customs module end to end, from data model to filing and post-entry corrections. You will shape architecture, drive the team, and ensure deterministic behavior in a high-stakes domain.

You'll lead design of entry, duty engine, and ABI filing with ACE, build agent workflows, and evolve the system with data-driven changes. Collaboration across time zones with our Gurgaon team is expected.