Clera

Founding Engineer

Clera
Apply
1 day ago

Base Salary

$150k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end to end.
  • Define engineering patterns and standards for the future engineering team.
  • Work directly with the founders by providing technical leadership and opinion.
  • Build and continuously ship production-ready, observable, and reliable systems.
  • Develop end-to-end frontend, backend, and infrastructure features with measurable customer impact.
  • Implement observability, monitoring, tracing, retry, and queuing patterns for production distributed systems.

Requirements

  • 3 to 9 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to build a product or system from 0 to 1 through an early-stage startup or serious side project.
  • Strong early-stage, venture-backed startup background; experience exclusively at large technology companies, enterprises, or consultancies does not meet the stated bar.
  • Proficiency with TypeScript and React for full-stack and frontend development.
  • Proficiency with Node.js for backend development.
  • Experience integrating or building workflows around large language models and agent-based platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS and PostgreSQL.
  • Experience owning end-to-end feature development across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
  • Experience implementing observability, monitoring, and tracing in production systems.
  • Experience building reliable retry and queuing patterns in distributed systems.
  • A strong computer science or engineering foundation, ideally from a rigorous degree program.
  • Enthusiasm for joining as employee number one at a true early-stage company.

Benefits

  • Salary range of $150,000 to $250,000 USD annually.
  • Visa sponsorship is available where an O-1 visa is a realistic path.
  • On-site in San Francisco five days per week.
  • Bay Area candidates are preferred; US-based candidates with a concrete, dated relocation plan to San Francisco will also be considered.
Contact me