Clera

Staff Engineer

Clera
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6 hours ago
Munich, GermanyStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own complex, high-leverage engineering work across core systems, shared frameworks, and critical infrastructure.
  • Define and evolve architecture across multiple products to avoid long-term technical debt.
  • Write and ship production code for the majority of the role while setting a technical example.
  • Refactor abstractions and improve reliability, scalability, and engineering standards.
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and direct feedback.
  • Contribute to AI capabilities, including LLM pipelines and data infrastructure.

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of software engineering experience solving difficult production engineering problems.
  • Deep full-stack expertise with strong backend, API, and infrastructure skills, including Python, React, and TypeScript.
  • Demonstrated ownership of architecture across multiple products or teams, with improvements to performance, reliability, and scalability.
  • Cloud and DevOps fluency with Docker, Azure, AWS or GCP, and Terraform.
  • Hands-on technical leadership and mentoring experience.
  • Experience building or integrating AI systems, LLMs, or large-scale data pipelines is preferred.
  • Ability to work in a high-intensity, in-person startup environment.

Benefits

  • On-site work in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, with in-person presence required.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
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