Clera

Founding Engineer

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

Base Salary

$156k - $182k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Ship features across frontend, backend infrastructure, and real-time systems.
  • Build data pipelines and tools that help analysts add sources and maintain industry coverage reliably.
  • Improve agent-based parsing and extraction systems for complex research tasks.
  • Own work end to end, including data inspection, quality assurance, instrumentation, production releases, and debugging.
  • Develop a company ontology and an initial earnings research product.

Requirements

  • At least two years of experience building, shipping, and operating production systems, with approximately seven years or less of professional experience.
  • Hands-on experience deploying agentic AI systems or LLM-based applications in production and sound judgment about AI reasoning versus deterministic software.
  • Full-stack capability with depth in backend engineering, data infrastructure, applied AI, or product engineering.
  • Python backend experience with FastAPI or an equivalent framework, plus TypeScript and React.
  • Experience with ETL, data modeling, SQL, relational database design and optimization, and production monitoring and debugging.
  • Familiarity with AWS, real-time data systems, and streaming updates; modern data tools or edge infrastructure experience is a plus.
  • Software engineering experience at an investment firm, including recent AI project work, is required; capital markets, financial research, or investment banking experience is a plus.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen and able to work on-site in New York City five days per week, locally or after relocating.

Benefits

  • Salary of $156,000 to $182,000 annually.
  • Equity and other benefits were not specified.
  • On-site in New York City five days per week.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.

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