Clera

Founding Engineer

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7 hours ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$180k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own an entire product domain from architecture through daily production shipping.
  • Join customer calls, synthesize feedback, and independently drive product decisions.
  • Build and optimize multimodal agents across voice, SMS, and email, targeting sub-500ms voice latency, strong SMS response rates, and long-running conversation state.
  • Define quality standards for nondeterministic systems, including evaluations, prompt versioning, guardrails, and drift detection.
  • Develop across React/Next.js frontends, Node.js backends, and Python voice services.

Requirements

  • 3 to 8 years of full-stack engineering experience and a strong track record shipping 0-to-1 products at high-growth startups, as a founder, or in new vertical teams at top-tier technology companies.
  • Production proficiency in TypeScript with hands-on Node.js and React/Next.js experience.
  • Production experience building with LLM APIs or agent SDKs such as Anthropic, OpenAI, Vercel AI SDK, or Mastra.
  • Depth in production voice or SMS agents, long-running agent state and memory, B2B2C or marketplace product architecture, or agent evaluations and guardrails.
  • Ability to make independent product decisions and conduct customer discovery without dedicated product management support.
  • Python experience with real-time voice pipelines such as LiveKit, Deepgram, STT/TTS, or evaluation tooling such as Braintrust and LLM-as-judge is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Redis, BullMQ, Vercel, Render, Sentry, or PostHog is preferred.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals, verifiable founder traction, or experience at a well-regarded AI-native employer is valued.
  • Comfort working in ambiguous early-stage environments and defining processes rather than following them.

Benefits

  • Equity is available given the founding-team nature of the role.
  • On-site five days per week in New York City, New York, in the Chelsea area.
  • No visa sponsorship is available.

Tech Stack

Next.jsNode.jsPythonReactRedisRenderTypeScriptVercel
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