Clera

Founding Engineer

Clera
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New York, NY, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$156k - $182k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Ship full-stack features spanning frontend, real-time systems, and backend infrastructure.
  • Build data pipelines and internal tools for adding data sources and maintaining sector coverage.
  • Improve agentic parsing and extraction systems for reliable production use.
  • Own the full development lifecycle, including data inspection, QA, instrumentation, shipping, monitoring, debugging, and production fixes.
  • Integrate new data sources, improve system speed or reliability, build a company ontology, and ship an initial core product module.

Requirements

  • 2–7 years of professional 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 experience with Python backend development using FastAPI or an equivalent framework, TypeScript, and React.
  • Experience developing data infrastructure and pipelines, including ETL, data modeling, and SQL.
  • Experience designing and optimizing PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
  • Experience with observability, monitoring, and debugging distributed systems, plus AWS cloud infrastructure and deployment.
  • Experience with real-time data systems and streaming updates.
  • Strong judgment in choosing between agentic reasoning and deterministic logic.
  • US citizenship is required; visa sponsorship is not available.
  • Capital markets, equity research, financial services, dbt, columnar stores, or vector databases are bonus qualifications.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $156,000 to $182,000 USD annually.
  • On-site in New York City five days per week; candidates must be local or willing to relocate.
  • Opportunity to join a three-person founding engineering team at a YC-backed seed-stage startup and directly shape the product and engineering approach.

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