Clera

Founding Engineer

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3 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAEntry Level / Mid Level

Base Salary

$150k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own software engineering problems end-to-end and make architectural decisions shaping the core system.
  • Build search and ranking systems across 200M+ places and millions of events.
  • Develop recommendations and personalization using embeddings, structured data, and social signals.
  • Build real-time chat, presence, and location infrastructure.
  • Develop AI agent pipelines for planning, retrieval, and reasoning over diverse data sources.
  • Create map display algorithms and data pipelines for large volumes of unstructured web data.
  • Optimize Elasticsearch and vector search for sub-100ms latency across large datasets.
  • Build full-stack mobile and web features from user interface through backend services.

Requirements

  • 0–5 years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Proven experience building real-time or low-latency production systems.
  • Proficiency in search, ranking algorithms, and related infrastructure.
  • Experience with data processing pipelines, ML/AI workflows, or data engineering.
  • Track record of infrastructure and performance optimization at scale.
  • Prior early-stage startup experience and comfort operating with high ambiguity.
  • Ability to own features end-to-end while collaborating across product, design, and engineering.
  • Strong problem-solving and fast decision-making skills.

Benefits

  • $150,000–$250,000 USD annual salary.
  • Equity as a founding team member.
  • Onsite work in San Francisco, California; candidates must be located there or willing to relocate.
  • No visa sponsorship; candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Tech Stack

ElasticsearchiOSPythonReactReact NativeSnowflakeTypeScript
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