Clera

Founding Engineer

Clera
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Base Salary

$180k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build backend systems that ingest and process documents from customer business systems and inboxes.
  • Develop production AI agents that complete complex, multi-page compliance and food safety documents.
  • Own products end to end from customer discovery and problem definition through architecture, launch, and iteration.
  • Ship quickly, gather feedback from real users, and improve products based on real-world usage.
  • Build full-stack features spanning backend services and user interfaces.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience with hands-on production coding.
  • Previous experience as a founder, co-founder, CTO, VP of Engineering, or early-stage engineering leader, with interest in returning to an individual contributor role.
  • Experience owning products or major customer-facing features from 0 to 1.
  • Strong full-stack software engineering skills.
  • Experience building backend services that process real-world data and designing relational databases such as Postgres.
  • Production experience with AI, LLMs, agents, search, RAG, automation, document processing, or unstructured data extraction.
  • Familiarity with Kotlin, Spring Boot or another JVM backend, React, Next.js, GCP, and production model integrations is helpful.
  • Interest in fast-moving product development and problems in manufacturing, supply chain, or other established industries.

Benefits

  • 0.5% to 1.5% equity is offered in addition to base salary.
  • Fully on-site role in San Francisco, California.
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