Clera

Founding Engineer

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4 hours ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$180k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own a complete product domain from architecture through daily production shipping.
  • Make independent architecture and product decisions alongside customers and conduct customer discovery.
  • Build and optimize multimodal voice, SMS, and email agents for low latency, response rates, and persistent conversation state.
  • Develop quality systems for nondeterministic AI behavior, including evals, prompt versioning, guardrails, and drift detection.
  • Develop across React/Next.js frontends, Node.js backends, and Python voice and real-time services.

Requirements

  • 3 to 8 years of full-stack engineering experience and a track record of shipping 0-to-1 products at high-growth startups, as a founder, or in new-vertical teams at top-tier technology companies.
  • Production proficiency in TypeScript with hands-on Node.js, React, and Next.js experience.
  • Production experience building with LLM APIs or agent SDKs such as Anthropic, OpenAI, Vercel AI SDK, or Mastra.
  • Depth in production voice or SMS agents, long-running agent state and memory, B2B2C or marketplace product architecture, or agent evaluations and guardrails.
  • Experience making independent product decisions, conducting customer discovery, and designing low-latency systems at production scale.
  • Python experience with real-time voice pipelines or evaluation tooling is a strong plus.
  • Familiarity with Redis, BullMQ, Vercel, Render, Sentry, or PostHog is a plus.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals and either a relevant degree or verifiable founder traction such as revenue, funding, or acquisition.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $180,000 to $250,000 USD annually and equity availability.
  • On-site work five days per week in Chelsea, New York City; candidates must be based in or able to commute to NYC.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Tech Stack

Next.jsNode.jsPythonReactRedisRenderTypeScriptVercel
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