Clera

Founding Product Engineer

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Base Salary

$200k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own product areas end to end, from customer discovery and problem scoping through design, implementation, launch, and iteration.
  • Design versioned APIs, user interfaces, backend services, typed data models, and AI-enabled workflows.
  • Build agent interfaces and server tooling that make product capabilities accessible to LLM agents.
  • Maintain financial accuracy through backend business logic, safe numerical and timezone handling, testing, observability, security, deployment, and performance practices.
  • Lead technical reviews, mentor colleagues, investigate production incidents, and improve AI-assisted development workflows.

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of software engineering experience, including startup experience owning and delivering full product areas.
  • Strong backend experience with Python, FastAPI, and MongoDB or comparable technologies, plus production API and data-model design experience.
  • Practical React and TypeScript skills with the ability to independently deliver polished interfaces.
  • Experience taking ambiguous customer needs through scoping and delivery with limited product-management support.
  • Experience with B2B SaaS pricing, packaging, quoting, billing, or monetization systems.
  • Experience with financial correctness, safe numerical and timezone handling, and resolving customer-impacting production issues.
  • Familiarity with AI-enabled product features, LLM agent workflows, or agent tooling; MCP-like server experience is a plus.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $200,000 to $250,000 annually.
  • On-site work in San Francisco, California; candidates must be based in the area or willing to relocate.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available; US work authorization is required.

Tech Stack

FastAPIMongoDBPythonReactTypeScript

Categories

Product Engineering
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