Clera

Founding Engineer

Clera
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3 hours ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$156k - $182k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship frontend features, real-time systems, and backend infrastructure across the full stack.
  • Build data pipelines and internal tools that help analysts add sources and maintain sector coverage.
  • Improve agentic parsing and extraction systems for greater capability and reliability.
  • Own work end to end, including data inspection, quality assurance, instrumentation, production releases, and issue resolution.
  • Onboard new information sources and deliver measurable improvements to agentic system speed or reliability.
  • Build a company ontology and ship an initial version of a core product feature within the first 30 days.

Requirements

  • 2 to 7 years of professional software engineering experience building, shipping, and operating production systems end to end.
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying agentic AI or LLM-based applications in production.
  • Full-stack capability with Python backend development, FastAPI or an equivalent framework, TypeScript, and React.
  • Strong experience with data infrastructure and pipelines, including ETL, data modeling, and SQL.
  • Experience designing and optimizing PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
  • Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure, production observability, monitoring, and debugging distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with real-time data systems and streaming updates.
  • Sound judgment about when AI agents should reason versus when deterministic software is more appropriate.
  • Comfort operating with deep ownership and ambiguity on a small, fast-moving team.
  • Experience in capital markets, equity research, investment banking, or financial services is a strong plus.
  • Familiarity with tools such as dbt, columnar databases, or vector search systems is a plus.
  • Must be a US citizen.

Benefits

  • Salary range is $156,000 to $182,000 USD annually.
  • Equity is expected given the founding-team nature of the role.
  • On-site in New York City five days per week; candidates must already be local or willing to relocate.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.

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