Clera

Founding Engineer

Clera
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3 months ago

Base Salary

$150k - $220k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate core infrastructure including APIs, LLM-powered workflows, web scraping systems, and large-scale knowledge graph architecture.
  • Architect and maintain production systems handling millions of API requests with attention to performance, cost efficiency, and reliability.
  • Own projects end-to-end from ambiguous problem definition through deployment and iteration.
  • Collaborate with the CEO and CTO on technical decisions, roadmap priorities, and foundational architecture.
  • Contribute to developer documentation, technical tutorials, internal tooling, and experimental builds that showcase and stress-test APIs.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of full-stack or backend software engineering experience.
  • Proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.
  • Experience with agent orchestration, LLMs, or web scraping.
  • Production experience working with Linux servers.
  • A track record of shipping production code supporting a large user base.
  • Experience building entire products end-to-end.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals.
  • Previous founder or early-stage startup engineering experience is preferred.
  • Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices, data pipelines, or cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP is preferred.
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is unavailable.
  • Must work on-site in San Francisco five days per week and relocate if necessary.

Benefits

  • $150,000–$220,000 USD annual salary depending on experience.
  • Equity participation as a founding team member.
  • Fully on-site in San Francisco, five days per week; relocation is required.
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