Clera

Founding Engineer

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5 days ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$180k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own an entire product domain from architecture through daily production deployments.
  • Join customer calls, synthesize feedback, and make independent product decisions.
  • Build and optimize multimodal voice and SMS agents targeting sub-500ms voice latency, strong SMS response rates, and persistent cross-channel conversation state.
  • Define architecture and 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

  • 3–8 years of full-stack engineering experience shipping 0-to-1 products at high-growth startups, top-tier technology companies, or as a founder.
  • Production proficiency with TypeScript, Node.js, React, and Next.js.
  • Production experience with LLM APIs or agent SDKs such as Anthropic, OpenAI, Vercel AI SDK, Mastra, or LangGraph.
  • Depth in at least one area including production voice/SMS agents, long-running agent state and memory, B2B2C or marketplace architecture, or agent evaluations and guardrails.
  • Ability to make independent product decisions and conduct customer discovery without PM support.
  • Python experience with real-time voice pipelines or evaluation tooling is a strong plus.
  • Familiarity with Redis, BullMQ, Vercel, Render, Sentry, or PostHog is a plus.
  • Founder experience with demonstrated traction and clear learnings from failure is valued but not required.
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States.

Benefits

  • Base salary plus equity.
  • On-site five days per week in New York City, New York; remote work is not available.
  • No visa sponsorship is available.

Tech Stack

Next.jsNode.jsPythonReactRedisRenderTypeScriptVercel
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