Clera

Founding Engineer

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5 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAEntry Level / Mid Level

Base Salary

$150k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own engineering problems and features end to end while working directly with the founders.
  • Make architectural decisions shaping the core system.
  • Build search and ranking systems over 200M+ places and millions of events.
  • Develop recommendations and personalization using embeddings, structured data, and social signals.
  • Build real-time chat, presence, and location infrastructure.
  • Develop AI agent pipelines for planning, retrieval, and reasoning over diverse data sources.
  • Create map display algorithms and data pipelines for structuring large volumes of unstructured web data.
  • Optimize Elasticsearch and vector search for sub-100ms latency across large datasets.
  • Build full-stack mobile and web interfaces or data and AI systems involving search, ranking, pipelines, and agent systems.

Requirements

  • 0–5 years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Proven experience building real-time or low-latency production systems.
  • Proficiency in search, ranking algorithms, and related infrastructure.
  • Experience with data processing pipelines, ML/AI workflows, or data engineering.
  • A track record of infrastructure and performance optimization at scale.
  • Prior early-stage startup experience and comfort operating with high ambiguity.
  • Ability to own features end to end and collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering.
  • Strong problem-solving and fast decision-making skills in fast-paced environments.

Benefits

  • $150,000–$250,000 USD annual salary.
  • Equity as a founding team member.
  • On-site work in San Francisco, California is required.
  • Candidates must be located in or willing to relocate to San Francisco.
  • No visa sponsorship is available; candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Tech Stack

ElasticsearchiOSPythonReactReact NativeSnowflakeTypeScript
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