Clera

Founding Product Engineer

Clera
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Base Salary

$180k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Conduct customer discovery with manufacturers and translate workflow needs into product improvements.
  • Build backend systems that ingest and process documents from customer ERPs and inboxes.
  • Develop AI agents that complete complex food safety and compliance documents.
  • Own full-stack features from problem definition and user-interface development through shipping and iteration.
  • Make pragmatic technical decisions and address emerging product and engineering needs.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of professional experience, including substantial hands-on software engineering and production coding.
  • Experience transitioning from product management into engineering or serving as a sole or first product engineer with end-to-end product ownership.
  • A record of shipping products or major features used by real customers and explaining technical and product tradeoffs.
  • Strong full-stack skills, including backend services, frontend development, and relational database design such as PostgreSQL.
  • Relevant experience with Kotlin and Spring Boot or another JVM backend, plus React and Next.js.
  • Production experience with AI or LLM products, agents, search, RAG, document processing, or unstructured data extraction is a plus.
  • Experience with GCP or another major cloud platform is helpful.
  • Familiarity with food manufacturing, supply chains, or other traditional industrial sectors is a plus.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $180,000 to $250,000 annually plus 0.5% to 1.5% equity.
  • On-site work in San Francisco, California.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.

Tech Stack

Categories

AI ApplicationsFull StackProduct Engineering
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