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Founding Engineer

clera · San Francisco
Sponsorship not statedMode not stated

ABOUT THE ROLE

We're a seed-stage startup building an agentic integration platform used by paying enterprise customers. We're looking for our first engineering hire — someone who will own core systems end-to-end, set the engineering patterns that every future hire builds on, and work shoulder-to-shoulder with the founders to ship production-ready software every day.

This is a high-ownership, high-impact role for an engineer who thrives in ambiguity, loves building from zero to one, and wants their technical fingerprints on the entire stack.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Own core systems end-to-end: agent platform, infrastructure, and the integrations runtime.
  • Define and establish the engineering patterns and standards that every future hire will build upon.
  • Work directly with the founders — your opinions and technical leadership matter as much as your code.
  • Ship to production constantly, delivering reliable, observable, and well-instrumented systems.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Must-haves (dealbreakers)

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
  • Proven ability to build something 0 to 1 — in an early-stage startup or through serious side projects.
  • Proficiency in TypeScript and React for frontend development.
  • Proficiency in Node.js for backend development.
  • Hands-on experience integrating or building workflows around large language models (LLMs) and agent-based platforms.

Required skills

  • Experience with AWS for cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL for data storage and database design.
  • Experience owning end-to-end feature development across frontend, backend, and infrastructure with measurable customer impact.
  • Experience implementing observability, monitoring, and distributed tracing in production systems.
  • Experience building reliable retry and queuing patterns in distributed systems.

Nice to have

  • Experience working in fast-paced startup environments.
  • Experience setting engineering patterns and standards for growing teams.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

  • Salary: $150,000 – $250,000 USD annually, depending on experience.
  • Visa sponsorship is available.

LOCATION

  • On-site in San Francisco, CA.
  • This is not a remote role.