Clera

Founding Engineer

Clera
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Base Salary

$200k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build backend systems that ingest and process unstructured documents from customer ERPs and inboxes, including large-scale PDF pipelines.
  • Develop LLM-powered agents that complete complex compliance and food safety documents end to end.
  • Own product features across backend services and the user interface.
  • Work directly with the founding team on major product decisions and iterate quickly based on real user feedback.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated history of shipping products or major features used by real users, including the ability to explain tradeoffs and lessons learned.
  • Full-stack capability to take features from backend services through the UI independently.
  • Production experience with LLM-powered features or agents, ideally involving multiple model providers.
  • Strong backend engineering skills involving unstructured data ingestion and processing and relational schema design with Postgres or an equivalent database.
  • Experience with or ability to ramp quickly on Kotlin, Spring Boot, React, Next.js, and cloud infrastructure such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
  • Document processing, PDF parsing, or unstructured data extraction experience is a strong plus.
  • Early-stage startup or founding engineer experience, or demonstrated comfort with ambiguity and broad ownership.
  • Based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $200,000 to $300,000 annually.
  • Equity of 0.5% to 2%.
  • Fully on-site in San Francisco five days per week.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.
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