Clera

Founding Engineer

Clera
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4 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USAEntry Level / Mid Level / Senior / Staff+

Base Salary

$160k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build backend systems that ingest and process real-world documents from customer systems and inboxes.
  • Develop AI agents that complete complex compliance and food safety documents.
  • Own product features end to end across backend services, data models, and user interfaces.
  • Ship quickly, gather user feedback, and improve the product based on findings.
  • Work across application development, infrastructure, and AI as team needs evolve.

Requirements

  • Experience ranging from 1 to 10+ years, with emphasis on shipped work, ownership, and increasing scope rather than a specific degree or career length.
  • Prior experience as a founder, founding engineer, or one of the first engineers at an early-stage startup.
  • Track record of building and launching production products or major features used by real users.
  • Strong full-stack skills spanning backend services, frontend interfaces, and infrastructure.
  • Experience with AI or LLM products, agents, retrieval, or automation, ideally in production.
  • Experience with Kotlin, Spring Boot, React, Next.js, Postgres, GCP, and commercial LLM providers, or equivalent tools.
  • Backend experience processing documents or unstructured data and designing relational schemas is valuable.
  • Interest in industrial software, supply chains, food manufacturing, or other traditional industries is a plus.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $160,000 to $200,000 annually plus 0.5% to 2% equity.
  • On-site work in San Francisco, California.
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