Raft is building the enterprise AI platform for supply chain - the industry that literally keeps the world moving.

We've built deep credibility in the supply chain sector, partnering with more than 60 global leaders to eliminate manual processes, unify fragmented systems, and unlock intelligence at scale. Along the way, we've raised $45M from Bessemer Venture Partners and Eight Roads to accelerate this mission.

With the launch of our next-generation agentic platform, we're doubling down on our supply chain roots while laying the groundwork to expand into adjacent sectors. Designed to handle messy data, fragmented systems, and people-intensive workflows, our platform is already proving its versatility.

The Role We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to drive architectural work across our cloud infrastructure, APIs, data pipelines, and databases. This role is critical to enabling core platform capabilities such as multi-user access, real-time updates, and scalable data workflows.

You'll work deeply across the backend stack, owning systems that power Raft's agentic platform and ensuring they are reliable, secure, and built to scale as we grow.

What You'll Do

• Build Scalable Infrastructure: Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure that supports a growing, production-grade platform
• Own Core Backend Systems: Architect and implement databases, APIs, and data pipelines, along with the infrastructure they run on — including hands-on DevOps work where needed
• Enable Critical Platform Features: Enhance the backend to support foundational capabilities such as multi-user access, real-time updates, and high-throughput workflows
• Design for Observability & Reliability: Build and maintain robust logging, monitoring, and alerting systems to ensure platform health and rapid issue resolution
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with Product, Frontend, Machine Learning, and QA teams to deliver backend systems that align with product goals and user needs

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of commercial experience building and maintaining backend systems in production environments
• Strong expertise in Python, with familiarity with modern language features and ecosystem developments
• Extensive experience designing, building, and maintaining databases, including PostgreSQL
• Proven ability to architect and implement backend services and shared libraries in a multi-cloud environment
• Experience building scalable APIs and data pipelines that support real-time and high-availability use cases
• Solid understanding of security and data privacy best practices
• Hands-on experience with containerized infrastructure, including tools such as Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, and Helm